{"id":2005,"date":"2019-09-29T14:58:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T13:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2019-09-30T09:23:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T08:23:49","slug":"palestinian-child-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=2005","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Child Prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"587\" height=\"399\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/forwebsite.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/forwebsite.jpg 587w, https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/forwebsite-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a meeting on Friday 27th at the Showroom.&nbsp; .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, due to the chaos in London Louise Haigh, MP for Heeley, could not attend.\u00a0 She did send a message of apology to the meeting and a strong <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=2012\">supporting statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to International Law, a child is defined as a human\nunder the age of 18 years. Under Israeli military detention, Palestinian\nchildren as young as 12 are routinely: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Taken from their homes at gunpoint in night-time raids by\nsoldiers.&nbsp; \u2022 Blindfolded, bound and\nshackled.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Interrogated without a lawyer or relative being&nbsp; present and with no audio-visual recording. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2022 Put into solitary\nconfinement.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Forced to sign confessions (often in Hebrew \u2013 a language\nthey do not understand).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The treatment of Palestinian children is in marked contrast\nto the treatment settler children.&nbsp; There\nare separate courts, separate treatments and separate laws for Palestinians and\nIsraelis.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/ https:\/\/www.palestinecampaign.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/child-prisoners-factsheet-v2-CORRECTED.pdf\ufeff\">here<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following films were shown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonpullman.com\/films\/children-in-chains \">&nbsp; \u201cChildren in Chains\u201d Jon Pullman 22 mins<\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7rw69pLILqw\">\u201cDetaining Dreams\u201d 21 mins long&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aKucPh9xHtM  \">Rafeef Ziadah &#8211; short poem &#8211;&nbsp; &#8220;We Teach Life, Sir!&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a meeting on Friday 27th at the Showroom.&nbsp; . Sadly, due to the chaos in London Louise Haigh, MP for Heeley, could not attend.\u00a0 She did send a message of apology to the meeting and a strong supporting statement. According to International Law, a child is defined as a human under the age &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=2005\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Palestinian Child Prisoners<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}