Israeli abuse of Palestinian children

Source:
Defence for Children International/Palestine Section

"The Israeli intelligence services (Shabak) continually seek to recruit children as informants. A field survey with former child detainees conducted in 2003 by DCI-PS, estimated that 60 per cent of the children interviewed, some of them are as young as 12, were reported to have been tortured or subjected to other forms of coercion or inducement in an attempt to make them cooperate. By
late 2003 in Gaza alone there were on average 40 attempts to recruit minors every month."

Joe McGonagle