This episode has been released for Palestinian Prisoner's Day. All around the world people are highlighting the conditions of people incarcerated by the Israeli occupation. To mark this day we bring you an interview with Milena Ansari, an incredible organiser from Addameer. Adameer in arabic means conscience. Adameer is a prisoner support and human rights organisation based in Palestine that supports Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli and Palestinian prisons. Established in 1991, the center offers free legal aid to political prisoners, advocates their rights at the national and international level, and works to end torture and other violations of prisoners' rights through monitoring, legal procedures and solidarity campaigns.

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Unfortunately we had to finish the interview prematurely due to the deportation of Milena's friend Salah Hammouri, a long-time human rights defender and lawyer working with Addameer, which needed an urgent response. We are incredibly grateful for everything that Milena shared with us through the interview. 

We want to give a content warning that there are detailed descriptions of prison conditions, including child imprisonment. 

To support the work of Addameer and to learn about the prisoner struggle in Palestine, please check out the links below.

Links:

• Addameer website
• Justice for Salah website
• International Solidarity Movement website 
• Join the International Solidarity Movement in Palestine

If you would like an explanation of the terms used in this podcast, youI can find a useful glossary on pages 140-154 of Shoal Collective’s Ebook

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Hey, welcome to the International Solidarity

Movement Podcast [Arabic translation]

Welcome back to The International Solidarity

Movement Podcast. Today is April 17th, which is Palestinian

Prisoners Day. All around the world, people are highlighting

the conditions of people incarcerated by the Israeli

occupation. To mark this day we bring you an interview with

Milena Ansari, an incredible organiser from Addameer. Adameer

in Arabic means 'conscience'. Adameer is a prisoner support

and human rights organisation based in Palestine that supports

Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli and Palestinian

prisons. Established in 1991, the center offers free legal aid

to political prisoners, advocates their rights at the

national and international level, and works to end torture

and other violations of prisoners' rights through

monitoring, legal procedures and solidarity campaigns.

Unfortunately we had to finish the interview prematurely due to

the deportation of Milena's friend Salah Hammouri, a

long-time human rights defender and lawyer working with

Addameer, which needed an urgent response. We are incredibly

grateful for everything that Milena shared with us through

the interview.

We want to give a content warning that there are detailed

descriptions of prison conditions, including child

imprisonment.

To support the work of Addameer and to learn about the prisoner

struggle in Palestine, please check out the links in the show

notes.

Hi, hello, my name is Milena Ansari, I'm the

international advocacy officer at Addameer Prisoner Support and

Human Rights Association. A bit about Addameer, and the work

that we do:

Addameer is a Palestinian non governmental human rights

organisation that focuses its work on advocating

internationally and locally on behalf of Palestinian political

prisoners, held both in Israeli occupation prisons and [by] the

Palestinian Authority as well. Part of the work that Addameer

does is divided into legal work, advocacy work, and awareness.

And so the legal work mainly revolves around providing free

legal aid and services and consultation to Palestinian

detainees and prisoners and their families as well. In

Israeli military courts and Israeli civil courts, and the

Palestinian Authority courts as well. We do regular prison

visits, where we meet the prisoners and detainees and take

their testimonies regarding their detention conditions,

their violations of rights, the violations of rights during

incarceration. And then we analyse this information and

[the] documents we get from the detainees and from the lawyers

regarding legal procedures, and through mechanisms of

international law, including international human rights law,

international humanitarian law, and also international criminal

law. In order to look into the systematic and widespread

violations of detainees rights, such as the use of torture, ill

treatment and medical neglect, prison raids that are brutal in

nature, and also the overall brutal detention conditions that

the Palestinians face inside prison.

And of course, fair trial guarantees in the Israeli

judicial system, whether the military one or the civil one.

So that's locally local work. When we're talking about

advocacy. It's mainly international advocacy speaking

to the international community, the way I see it, or I divide

the work for advocacy into three targeted groups. The first group

is regarding litigation. So the United Nations, the Human Rights

Council, the special procedures, and the International Criminal

Cour. Different mechanisms regarding litigation on an

international level, where we report to them regularly

regarding highlighted cases of Palestinian prisoners and

detainees and whether there is any new violations or

circumstances leading to something very threatening

regarding the prisoners' movement as a whole.

The second target group is parliamentarians' representative

offices in Ramallah in Jerusalem. But sadly, this type

of targeted group, there's not much development or actual work

taking action because sadly, the diplomats or the

parliamentarians are always restricted with their own state

position on how much they can take action so they can know the

brutality and in just about these cases, but they don't take

any concrete action to prevent the further violations of human

rights, because they're restricted by the country's

politics.

The third targeted group is international organisations,

grassroots solidarity movements and liberation movements across

the world. It's important for us to also target our advocacy work

to these groups, because at the end of the day, we understand

the injustice that happens in Palestine, the brutality, the

violence, what happens with political prisoners, whether

spyware surveillance or the use of torture or medical neglect,

is not something very unique to the Palestinian situation. But

these are policies that oppressive governments use

across the world to implement their domination and oppression

over a vulnerable community or minority group.

So we tried to put aside the geographic fragmentation and

differences and focus on these arbitrary policies. And this is

the third targeted group. But when we talk about the work of

Addameer we also work on spreading awareness to the

Palestinian community here locally on the ground. We do

workshop programmes that are called Know Your Rights 'K N O

W'. Sadly, if you can see me you will be you'll see that I'm

doing air quotes, because from the first moment Palestinians

are arrested up until the release, there's brutality and

violence embedded at each stage of the process, whether it is

the arrest process, the detention process, the

interrogation, the transfer to the prison, and the

incarceration itself. There's violence and brutality. But it's

really important for us to spread the awareness to our

community, to strengthen their knowledge of their own rights,

when they are subjected to arrest and detention, we make

sure that they know they have the right to have a lawyer

present with them to be interrogated in the language

they know. But sadly, none of these rights are provided to

them. But it gives some kind of, you know, strength to the

prisoners, because inside prison, they are isolated, they

don't have a community to support [them] psychologically

or mentally, and so on. It's on us to empower them ahead of

time, and to know what to expect and how to act in these

conditions.

What is the situation of prisoners in Palestine? What

kind of conditions are they living in and experiencing

First, before talking about prison conditions,

I do have to acknowledge that me myself, I have never been in

[Its] not only overcrowding, but there is lack of any basic

minimum living standards, like any adequate living for basic

human beings, there is no protection of the right to

prison. So part of me doesn't feel like I have the right to

health, the right to education, even inside prison. What I mean

talk about prison conditions, because we document from the

by this is that inside prison, the prisoners are in control -

or they are in charge and responsible - of everything for

themselves. They do the cooking, they do the cleaning, they buy

their life necessities from the prison canteen, where there is

also economic exploitation, where the prison canteen sells

life necessities and food at very high costs and high prices.

There is also economic exploitation because the prison

contains you. The prisoners are obligated to buy these

necessities at very high prices. Why I say obligated because

according to international humanitarian law, when there's

occupation and there are prisoners from an occupied

territory and the occupying power, which Israel in this

prisoners themselves, [taking] testimonies directly. So these

context has. [The occupier] has an obligation to provide

are their words, their own experiences, prison conditions

adequate living necessities to the prisoners, they have an

are extremely brutal, and they're harsh in nature, there's

obligation to provide even adequate healthcare to

overcrowding in prisons [that] Palestinians are incarcerated

prisoners. But what we see [with] implementation on the

ground is actually using healthcare as a leverage against

detainees and prisoners, where in order to put more

in. In one prison cell, there could be more than ten prisoners

psychological pressure, more physical pressure on the

detainees, even [when they are already] in prison, the Israeli

Prison Services don't provide them proper medical health care.

The prison clinics are [called] by the prisoners as the

slaughterhouse because they're by no means a place to take

there.

medical care, or to take any kind of treatment or prevent

yourself from any sickness or diseases or even chronic

illnesses that the detainees or prisoners already have. So they

are experiencing more brutality in the clinic. The prison

clinics [are[ like going back to prison conditions as a whole.

How is life inside prison? The prison structure the prisons. So

general, there are 17 prisons and detention centres where

Palestinians are incarcerated by the Israeli occupation, and only

one is located in the West Bank - so in the Palestinian

I don't want to talk about law a lot. But the forcible transfer

territory - the rest are located in what is now called Israel.

of the prisoners outside of their occupied territory, to the

territory of the occupying power, is also illegal under

international law and is a crime, and what we see happen on

What that means? one thing is that the Palestinian prisoners

a day to day basis. And the majority of the Palestinian

prisoners are forcibly transferred outside of their

territory. The prison structures or the prisons where

are isolated from their own community. What it also means is

Palestinians are incarcerated in now. Not only are they held

inside what is Israel, but they are also prisons that were

established from the British Mandate era. So we're talking

about from way before 1948. And no actual reconstruction or

that the loved ones, the Palestinian community cannot

rehabilitation for these structures have happened. Yhe

structure of prisons doesn't really entail anything that they

visit the prisoners inside Israeli prisons, because they

can hold prisoners in them. Like, for example, Damon Prison

[in the Naqab, inside the borders of Israel] - where

Palestinian woman prisoners are incarcerated and detained. And

need to take a specific permit from the Israeli occupation. And

originally, during the British Mandate, it was a place to store

tobacco and even a horse stable at some sort of time period. But

when I say this, by no means do we mean that we need to better

the detention conditions for Palestinian prisoners. No, we do

we note and report that male Palestinians between the age of

need to focus [on] the root cause. That is, why do we have

4700 Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli

prisons? This is the focus or the question that we should

20 and 40, almost never get a permit to visit their loved one

tackle and prison conditions is just one of the issues we follow

up on. So other than the overcrowdness, there's also lack

of ventilation, lack of natural lighting, or any kind of like

is in prison. So there is isolation.

window cell that brings any kind of sunlight or natural lighting

to the prison cell.

like how do prisoners in Palestine [organise]? Like are

they able to organise with each other, or resist the conditions?

Obviously, they must experience oppression from these

activities. But yeah, how are prisoners fighting back?

The Palestinian prisoner movement - and I can

tell you this, with all honesty - it's one of the only forms

where Palestinians are united, sadly. Because outside of

prisons Palestinians are fragmented, geographically,

whether it is Palestinians in Gaza in their land, water and

air siege for more than five years, seven years now, whether

it is Palestinians in the West Bank that are under military

rule, or Palestinians in Jerusalem and occupied '48

territories that are under direct Israeli apartheid and

discrimination. And of course, the Palestinian refugees,

millions of them in exile, not being able to return back to

their country. So the Palestinian community is

fragmented outside of prison. But when we talk about the

prisoners movement, it is all united, all together. There is

no political party making decisions amongst all the other

prisoners, they are all united taking decisions. And we see

honestly a very strong connection and strong activism

inside prison even with all of the brutality that prisoners face.

And one example of this is hunger strikes. Collective

hunger strikes have been one of the most important and only

tools for Palestinian prisoners to protest either their harsh

incarceration conditions, or their arbitrary detention in

general. So collectively, they decide as a whole to refuse food

for an open period of time, in order to change the power

dynamics between the prison guards and the prisoners

themselves. So the prisoners become in control of their own

bodies. They become sovereign over their bodies, and don't

allow the prison guards to decide how they want to live

their life or whatnot. It's a form of pressure. It's a

peaceful form of demonstration. You're're using your own body to

change the power dynamics between the oppressor and the

victim. But sadly we see [that] collective hunger strikes are

also being faced with more retaliation by the Israeli

Prison Service. And so for example, when the prisoners

initiate a hunger strike, those who are striking are immediately

put into isolation as a form of punishment in the Israeli Prison

Service's sense that doesn't make any common sense. And they

say that since they are refusing a meal, which is in the laws and

policies of the prison, they are basically refusing to abide by

the prison rules. So they punish them by isolating them and

putting them in isolation cells. Also part of [the repression is]

not allowing them any contact or communication with the rest of

the prisoners.

Other forms of resistance by the prisoner movements other than

hunger strikes and refusing meals is they refuse to stand in

the count. The count is when the prison guards enter each prison

cell and call out the prisoners by their numbers to make sure

everyone is still in their place in their cells. And so a form

[of resisting] is refusing to stand, to obey or to listen to

them calling the prisoners.

How is the prisoner solidarity movement, like on the

outside? Like how is this relationship between the inside

and the outside in Palestine?

they're intertwined. Definitely, like

whatever the situation on [the] ground outside of prison is,

does reflect on the situation inside prison and vice versa. Of

course, an example of this is there was a hunger strike that

was supposed to [be] initiate[d] in 2014. But if you remember, in

2014, there was a huge war on Gaza. And the Palestinian

community wasn't able to either focus on the hunger strike in

prison or the siege and the war on Gaza in 2014. So the

prisoners halted their hunger strike and postponed it until

after the violence against Gaza. Because, you know, the

Palestinian community tends to feel a lot. Like in May 2021,

when there were families, Palestinian families in Sheikh

Jarrah being forcibly displaced [from[ their own homes in

Jerusalem. And everyone across Palestine from the river to the

sea was revolting, and was standing up with Palestinians in

Sheikh Jarrah. We even saw cities in the occupied 1948

territories that don't usually stand up or speak up or

challenge the Israelis, because they are at the forefront with

the Israeli occupation. But for example, Al Lidd, which is a

Palestinian occupied '48 city was revolting and standing up.

We saw even people in the diaspora, Palestinians all

around the world standing up with Sheikh Jarrah, and so I can

clearly say that there is an intertwine or a reflection to

what happens outside of prison with what happens inside of

prison.

Same thing, if we talk about the vice versa. The Gilboa escape.

That happened last year, in November, where six Palestinian

prisoners from Gilboa, a maximum security prison, were able to

successfully escape this prison and sadly, they were recaptured

after that. But during that escape all the Palestinian

community across Historic Palestine, was supporting them

saying that we're here to support or take on any prisoner

or any escapee - even if they would face criminal

responsibility and criminal charges. They made sure that

whenever a prisoner needs a Palestinian, that the support

and solidarity is there. And of course, the way that

Palestinians look at prisoners, they look at them as a symbol of

resistance and a symbol of strength. Because although we

are living in an open air prison, they are living in a

very closed prison, isolated from their loved ones, their

family, and their support system. So we have to be their

support system from outside of prisons.

And do people like receive letters? Is that

possible? Or I know you said visits are often very

restricted, but how do families stay in touch with their loved

ones to prison?

Sadly, this is what the Israeli prison services

and the Israeli Apartheid settler colonial regime aims for

regarding prisoners, they aim to isolate them. So when we talk

about, do they get letters from their loved ones and whatnot?

The answer is simply no. It's possible to send letters but the

Israeli prison services will open each letter, read it

through, and if they feel like any sentence or any word is

misplaced, or might motivate the Palestinians, or support them in

a way that the Israelis don't want the prisoners to have

support, they don't give the letter to the prisoner. So it

stops with the Israeli prison guard that looks into the

letter. So it's possible to send, but it's not really

possible that the prisoner will receive the letter at the end of

the day. And this is all part of restriction like by the way even

books, educational books, even the Quran - which is the Holy

Bible - is sometimes refused to enter the prison. Or even if we

want like different religious books - not the only the Quran -

they don't allow religious books. They don't allow history

books inside prison, any like chemistry or physics books? They

use the allegation or the narrative of security reasons.

But we know all of this is part of educating the Palestinian

community, because inside prison, there's no education

system provided by the Israeli prison services. And it's

completely banned.

So in that regard, like we had the insight into reading

one of your reports about prisoner education, and it was

super inspiring all this organising and pressure

campaigns to access education, including the development of a

university! could you share a little bit about that?

And so inside prison, the Israeli Prison

Services completely deny the Palestinian prisoners and

detainees the right to education, the right to continue

their education. So any educational books or study

groups are banned, and the prisoners can be punished for

[trying to access them], either by isolation or banning them

from prison, from family visits, or phone calls to their

families. And so what the the prisoner movement did - and this

is one of the success stories of the Palestinian prisoners'

movement - is that they established their own university

educational system, where they also work remotely with Al Quds

University in Abu Dis. But this educational system is restricted

[to] a few topics, like a few fields of education, like social

sciences, and I believe political science as well.

Social Sciences and Political Science and Social Studies,

Psychology, things that have do with math, or physics or biology

or whatnot. Because these are banned by the Israeli Prison

Services. So when I say that they have established their own

system, it's really important to note that the Israeli Prison

Services, up, until this point, have allowed this to happen. But

at any moment, they can hold every Palestinian prisoner who

goes into this establishment of the like the study courses and

the cultural courses - they can punish them because at the end

of the day it's still illegal, but for some reason, they're

shutting a blind eye at it. And of course, this education system

was established by the Palestinian political prisoner

and Legislative Council Member Marwan Barghouti, and he had

[an] important role in this. And he led the prisoner movement

with this educational system.

So in the UK, we have one of the most privatised

prison systems in the world. We have a lot of private companies

making massive profits from imprisoning people. And I'm

aware that one of those companies G4S has also worked in

Palestine. Could you share a little bit about that?

Maybe I'll connect it to something very recent I read

The G4S campaign actually is also another success

story for the BDS [Boycorr, Divestment and Sanctions]

Movement. Because in the past, I believe in 2014-2016, the G4S

campaign - which is a security surveillance company that runs

in different prisons across the world, and Israeli prison

services used to use G4S in their own prison systems. There

was a huge campaign against G4S asking them, and calling them to

end their ties with the Israeli occupation, because of their

violations of human rights. And this is where we see the line

between private companies and human rights come together.

Because we cannot say that businesses or companies should

not abide by human rights, law and international principles. On

the contrary, they play a huge and important role in really

facilitating and playing an integral role in the oppression

about, which is Ben and Jerry's, the ice cream company. And very

recently, I think last week, officially, they won the lawsuit

and domination of the people. So thankfully, up until now, the

where they took control over stopping their products - Ben

G4S have withdrawn their surveillance and their

and Jerry's, an ice cream company - [stopping] their

products in Israeli settlements. The mother company of Ben and

technology systems from Israeli prisons, but I do acknowledge

Jerry's, refused this act, and wanted to hold them responsible

And what do you think is the role of the international

community in terms of prisoner solidarity and prisoner support

for stopping their products in an Israeli settlement. But after

and I can say it clearly that training sessions between G4S

in Palestine?

following up with legal procedures, and really not

bowing down to the bullying of the Israeli occupation, and also

Israeli lobbying around the world, they won the case. And

and Israeli Prison Services or Israeli security intelligence is

they were able to officially decide and announce that they

will not have any of their products in Israeli settlements.

still ongoing. So while they pulled their services from

So this is what we need to focus on, is that no matter how big,

or how small,. Whether it is security and technology in

prisons, they're still complicit somehow, by training and giving

prisons, or ice cream, it really plays a role in maintaining the

oppression on the Palestinian people and sustaining the

Israeli apartheid regime. So in order to really tackle the root

workshops to the Israeli occupation. This is why the

cause of what's happening here in Palestine, each country or

power of BDS is important. Because it's not only about the

each company needs to really self-criticise their work and

self note, how are they complicit and playing an

clear violations that we see, but it's also what happens under

integral role into the occupation of the Palestinian

people. And trust me, when this happens, when companies start

the table. It's these training sessions that are also embedded

opening their eyes and holding Israel accountable for human

rights violations, Israel will understand the pressure from the

international community.

in the Israeli occupation, the ways of domination and

oppression. And it all needs to end.

And I know this is possible because, when Russia invaded

parts of Ukraine and established a war, and started stealing

lands in Ukraine, European countries did not stop to think

for a second [before] boycott[ing], sanction[ing] and

divest[ing] from Russia and Russian companies. So we know

it's possible, with political will and with political

intention. And we just want the same treatment, of how the

international community is treating different racial groups

or different nationalities - to treat Palestinians minimum the

same. It's not because we're jealous, or we want to be

treated as Europeans or whatnot. It's basic human rights. It's a

legal, and it's a moral obligation on the countries

around the world, to hold Israel accountable for their human

rights violations, instead of shedding a blind eye and

constantly giving impunity to their violations. Because this

silence only tells Israel, we're giving you the green-light to

continue on doing whatever you're doing, and even expanding

on doing that. So there's a big role [for] the international

community, ending their silence. And it starts with basically

ending their silence.

For the prisoners movement, solidarity is not only during

hunger strikes, this is what I really want to focus on. Because

in the type of work I do, I always interact with the

international community, I always talk or report on cases

of the hunger striking detainee, or a detainee under medical

neglect or a woman in prison or a child. We talk about the

policies, the systematic policies, and sadly, no one

hears us when we're talking about policies. But when we say

there's a detainee under imminent threat of death, that

there is a child who was subjected to torture, or there

was a woman who was subjected to rape, like when we are extremely

clear about the cases, do we see people wanting to interact and

wanting to work and wanting to save this specific case? But

sadly, that's not how we will deal with the prisoners issue.

Because it's not only one prisoner, it's not two

prisoners. It's 4700 prisoners all facing the same policies of

discrimination and oppression.

So when You want to stand with Palestinian prisoners, you have

to stand against the policies stand against prosecuting

Palestinian civilians in Israeli military courts that lack any

guarantee of fair trial standards, because violations of

their rights starts from them. Starts when a military judge

whose most of the time an Israeli military officer and

most of the time an Israeli settler is ruling using Israeli

military orders against a Palestinian. So basically,

there's no real justice or accountability in the Israeli

judicial system. It's just a system that plays an integral

role in facilitating all these policies and all this

oppression.

So if the international community wants to stand with

Palestinian prisoners, they have to stand against the Israeli

apartheid regime, they have to stand against settler

colonialism. Because as long as the idea - or the ideology - of

settler colonialism is deeply rooted in the State of Israel,

political prisoners will emerge over and over again. Violations

of the rights will continue on happening. So in order to really

support prisoners, we need to support the Palestinian people

in general. Stand against prosecuting Palestinian

prisoners in military courts, stand against the military

regime that's implemented against Palestinians in the West

Bank, and stand against the racist policies of the Israeli

apartheid regime.

So how do you think that kind of like situation has

changed over time here? I know [from] doing prisoner solidarity

work a long time, it often feels extremely depressing, that

things just seem to get worse and worse. And obviously, you've

talked about some successes in your struggles and your

organising. But how do you think it's changed? And how do you

think it might continue to change?

So I don't want to be pessimistic at all. I want

to be [as] realistic as possible. I have been working

with Addameer for three years now. And I can say, from this

short period of time, three years, the situation has been

ten times worse, it has been increasingly escalating with

violence with the numbers of prisoners with the policies that

the Israeli Prison Services use. And sadly, it's very

disappointing. It's very sad. It's very unfortunate. And if I

want to say who is to respond to be responsible, I'm not the type

of person who likes to blame others. But I do want to shed

light at the role of the international community. Because

when the the prisoners' movement first emerged, there wasn't much

solidarity and much support [for] the prisoner movement.

Like the international community would still argue that

Palestinians are in prison because of the safety of the

State of Israel. We would still hear these arguments, justifying

the brutality inside prisons, by saying [it is] to save the

security of Israel. And so I believe, sadly, the impunity of

the international community has allowed Israel to continue on

doing what they're doing, and even expanding more and more. As

I mentioned before, but really, I'm being completely realistic.

Like when I first started with Addameer, I was talking about

300 Palestinian administrative detainees. So those who are

detained without a charge without a trial, based on secret

information and indefinite time. There are 300 of them during the

first time I started three years ago. But now if you asked me,

what is the number of administrative detainees, it's

835. And that's within three years, this number, I think,

doubled even within two years, the situation is definitely

getting worse, even with the Gilboa escape last year. We are

seeing the Israeli Prison Services implement more policies

of retaliation against the prisoners. So they even started

with the recent policy where one prisoner cannot stay in their

own cell... more than three months, and they cannot stay in

the same prison more than six months. So they're even trying

to really mess up the whole life inside prison, where it's always

uncertainty. There's always unknowing, and the future of the

prisoners inside prison is always left at the hands of the

Israeli Prison Services sadly. So I don't want to be sounding

very pessimistic but it's the situation on ground, it's

deteriorating day by day.

Recently, we went to a demonstration with some mothers

whose children were in prison. I just wondered, you know, we have

we have, like children prisoners in the UK from the age of 12. We

can be in prison. But I know here it's like on a completely

different scale. How many children are in prison? And I

just wondered what the situation is [for] child prisoners?

When we want to talk about Palestinian children,

prisoners and detainees. Actually, it's the most brutal

and the saddest, topic or issue regarding the Palestinian

prisoners' movement, because yes, even here, children as

young as 12, could be prosecuted and put in prison. And there is

a juvenile system, or a juvenile judicial system, implemented by

the Israeli occupation, but there's no actual application of

it, like in reality on ground, the same court that looks into

prosecuting a Palestinian [adult], regardless of what age,

is the same that looks into prosecuting Palestinian

children. So this juvenile system only exists in words and

writing but not in real implementation. There are around

160 Palestinian children in prison. Four of them are placed

under administrative detention. So four children are placed

without charge without trial under secret information! [final