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Israel is also holding 52 Palestinian women in prisons, where torture and sexual assault are common

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office reported on 9 January that it has documented more than 600 cases of Palestinian children being detained by the Israel during 2025, including a child who died in prison.

A statement issued by the media office said that Israel targets children with arrests, harsh interrogations, and long sentences to destroy “their future, distort their consciousness, and spread fear across society.”

The statement added that 350 children remain in Israeli prisons, including 155 who have been convicted and 90 who are being held without charge as administrative detainees.

Administrative detention lasts six months but can be renewed multiple times based on secret evidence. Some administrative detainees are held for many years.

Detained Palestinian children are held in the Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank and Megiddo prison in Israel at the northern edge of the occupied West Bank.

The media office said that Israel had detained 1,700 Palestinian children since the start of the genocide in Gaza on 7 October 2023, “with an unprecedented escalation in torture.”

Israel committed “grave violations during arrests, including the arrest of children under 10 years old, shooting and causing injuries without medical treatment, interrogations inside hospitals, and transferring the wounded to interrogation centers before they had recovered,” the statement added.

The office confirmed that the detained children are subjected to inhumane conditions, including torture, denial of education and family visits, medical neglect, overcrowding, lack of food and hygiene, and the spread of scabies, especially in winter, due to the lack of heating and adequate clothing.

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