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Thursday 26 Nov 2015 - 12:54 Makkah mean time-14-2-1437
Israeli PM Netanyahu. Image from internet
Ramallah, (IINA) - The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem excoriated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, stating that he is responsible for “the transformation of police officers, and even of armed civilians, into judges and executioners” who slay Palestinians suspected of armed attacks in the streets, The Electronic Intifada (EI) reported.
“Your silence in the face of Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan’s saying that ‘every terrorist should know that he will not survive the attack he is about to perpetrate’ is tantamount to consent to this unlawful policy,” B’Tselem said, addressing the Israeli prime minister.
The Israeli rights group said the policy amounts to a de facto death sentence, even though capital punishment is banned in the country.
This apparent shoot-to-kill policy left three children dead this week, Defense for Children International, Palestine (DCI) stated on Tuesday.
At least 94 Palestinians have been killed in a surge of violence since 1 October, and 19 Israelis were slain during the same period.
DCI has confirmed that 19 of the Palestinian fatalities were children, all but 4 of them killed while allegedly carrying out stabbing attacks on Israelis.
Videos and eyewitness accounts, however, cast doubt on whether some of these children were engaged in attacks, and point to reflexive use of deadly force when children could easily be apprehended and posed no immediate risk to anyone’s life.
The Electronic Intifada reported earlier this month that “Israel has arrested so many Palestinian children since the start of October that it has opened a new detention center specifically for them.”
Human rights lawyers said that children are being held in appalling conditions and are subjected to strip-searches at the Givon prison in Ramle, a town in present-day Israel.
The Fourth Geneva Convention forbids an occupying power from transferring prisoners to its own territory. According to the Palestinian rights group Addameer, Israel was holding 6,700 Palestinian political prisoners in October, including 320 children.
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