An official report noted the killing of 3,000 Palestinian children by Zionist occupation forces since the Second Intifada from 28/09/2000 until the end of October 2019.
The report was published by the Children's Media Department of the Ministry of Media on the occasion of International Children's Day (celebrated by the United Nations on November 20 each year). In this report, the ministry said that since the beginning of the Second Intifada and until the end of last October, more than 3,000 Palestinian children have been killed while thousands of others have been wounded and 16,000 children arrested.
The ministry said that about 200 Palestinian children still languish in the occupation jails that, since the beginning of the current year, 745 minors have been arrested. The report also showed that 95 per cent of the children arrested were victims of torture and assault during their detention. He added that the occupation forces are making arrests after midnight and are torturing the children in order to extract confessions in the absence of family members and lawyers.
According to the report, the Zionist entity jails about 700 Palestinian children each year, and from the beginning of October 2015 until November 2016, the occupation forces arrested about 2,000 children for jets. of stones against the police of the occupation.
For their part, students and students are subject to various military checkpoints located at the entrances of towns, villages and camps. The report said that apart from arrests, killings and torture, Palestinian children are victims of poverty in the country, especially in the Gaza Strip (because of the encirclement), which forces children to leave schools to go to work.
According to a report by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics for the year 2013, the rate of Palestinian children, aged 10 to 17, active in the labor market has reached 4.1%. Another report, prepared by the Ministry of Labor, revealed that about 102,000 Palestinian children work while they were 65,000 in 2011.
The same report showed that 85% of Palestinian children residing in occupied Jerusalem live below the poverty line while schools are short of about 1,000 classes. These conditions and Zionist policies cause many citizens to leave their city.
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