Ramallah: Palestinian prisoners' institutions revealed on Thursday that they documented the arrest of around 1,630 Palestinian children by Israeli occupation forces in West Bank and Jerusalem, in addition to unknown numbers in Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023.

According to Qatar News Agency, in a joint statement issued on the occasion of World Children's Day, marked annually on November 20, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society, and NGO Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, stated that 350 children remain detained in Israeli occupation prisons, including two girls. They stressed that children held in occupation prisons face conditions that violate all international standards for protection of minors, including enforced disappearance, torture, starvation, medical neglect, systematic theft and deprivation, denial of family visits, collective isolation, physical and psychological intimidation through systematic practices.

The institutions also pointed out that these detained children have been subjected to at least one form of physical or psychological torture within a deliberately structured system of violations. They called on all international organizations to act urgently to protect these children, compel the occupation to halt all practices condemned under international law, and work towards securing their release and return to their natural environments, like all children around the world.

For decades, Palestinian child remained among the most vulnerable categories exposed to Israeli occupation violations, whether through killing, injury, denial of education, or arrest, a fate that affected tens of thousands of minors over many years.