{"id":828,"date":"2016-10-16T09:57:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T08:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=828"},"modified":"2016-10-16T10:01:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T09:01:43","slug":"palestinian-children-who-visited-sheffield-face-military-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Children who visited Sheffield face military court"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lajee dancers spend some time off in the Peace Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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On 9th July this summer, over a hundred people saw at Sheffield\u2019s Broomhall Centre a performance by 20 Palestinian teenagers, from Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem.<\/p>\n

The previous day, Sheffield\u2019s Deputy Mayor had welcomed the group, the Lajee Dance Troupe,\u00a0at the Town Hall. On Wednesday, \"saliba\"October 5th, three of the 14-year- old dancers, Mustafa\u00a0Bdair, Mutaz Barakah and Omar Radi were arrested by masked Israeli soldiers.<\/p>\n

Attacks by the Israeli army on the Lajee centre have escalated since Celtic football fans\u00a0raised over \u00a3170,000 divided between Medical Aid for Palestine and the Lajee Centre in\u00a0Aida Camp.<\/p>\n

These night raids by Israeli soldiers fit into a pattern of reprisals that have\u00a0followed international gestures of solidarity with the Centre under an Israeli military\u00a0occupation that the UK and other governments consider to be illegal.<\/p>\n

Israeli soldiers attacked the Lajee Centre with teargas and rubber bullets on 19 Sept while the\u00a0children were inside. The following night they forced open the gate of the centre, threw\u00a0teargas grenades inside and closed the gate, trapping the children inside, forcing them to\u00a0inhale toxic teargas.<\/p>\n

Mutaz, Mustafa and Omar have been released on bail but will be tried by an Israeli military\u00a0court where defendants are routinely found guilty.<\/p>\n

In total,\u00a0440 children under 18\u00a0are\u00a0currently held in military detention almost two-and- half times the number imprisoned a year\u00a0ago. According to\u00a0the Defense for Children International\u2013Palestine (DCIP), no other country\u00a0in the world systematically prosecutes hundreds of children in military courts each year.<\/p>\n

Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign are urging Sheffield MPs to call on the Foreign\u00a0Office to condemn the Israeli government\u2019s campaign of intimidation against the Lajee\u00a0Centre and to press for the dropping of the charges against the teenagers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  On 9th July this summer, over a hundred people saw at Sheffield\u2019s Broomhall Centre a performance by 20 Palestinian teenagers, from Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem. The previous day, Sheffield\u2019s Deputy Mayor had welcomed the group, the Lajee Dance Troupe,\u00a0at the Town Hall. On Wednesday, October 5th, three of the 14-year- old dancers, Mustafa\u00a0Bdair, … Continue reading Palestinian Children who visited Sheffield face military court<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[15,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-protest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}