Israel detained 1,200 Palestinian children in West Bank since Oct. 7, 2023: Rights groups

Israel has detained 1,200 Palestinian children from the occupied West Bank since Oct. 7, 2023, according to data released by Palestinian rights organizations jointly.

The data was published in a joint statement by the Palestinian Commission for Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners Society, and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association on Saturday, marking Palestinian Children’s Day, which is observed on April 5 every year.

The statement revealed that child detainees are subjected to “torture, starvation, medical neglect, and systematic deprivation on a daily basis.”

These conditions recently resulted in the death of the first child prisoner since the beginning of the Gaza war, 17-year-old Walid Ahmad from the town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah, who was killed at Megiddo Prison in northern Israel.