Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies on Monday reported that the number of Palestinian detained children has jumped to 350 over the past three weeks.
The center’s spokesman Riyad al-Ashqar said that the Israeli arrests have escalated by 17 percent after the recent protests at the US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The number of arrests was estimated at 600 including 200 children he said adding that most of the arrests were reported in Occupied Jerusalem.
Ashqar warned of the consequences of targeting Palestinian children and stressed that subjecting Palestinian minors to extrajudicial killing arrest torture deportation and house arrest is an Israeli systematic behavior.
