In a recent video posted on his Twitter account, Netanyahu said the children and
teenagers of Iran have been going through "a regime that oppresses them and
denies them a life of dignity, prosperity and respect.”
In the video, Netanyahu gives an example of an imaginary 15-year-old Iranian
girl named Fatemah who is trying to live a normal life but is unable to do so
due to the ongoing distress in the country.
Fatemeh, Netanyahu says, is faced with water and electricity shortage, cannot
remove her head-covering outside her home, and her school is shut down due to
air pollution, Jerusalem Post reported.
The video was the last in a series of such clips in which Netanyahu struggles to
encourage the Iranian people to stand up to the Iranian government.
This is while the world still remembers a notable example of
the Israeli violation of child rights, the case of Ahed Tamimi, a 17-year-old
girl who was arrested and put on trial in an Israeli military court for slapping
an Israeli soldier.
Late last month, Tamimi was set free after serving an eight-month prison
sentence, which the UN human rights experts have described as a violation of the
international Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The Amnesty International said Tamimi’s case is a reminder of Israel’s ongoing
human rights violations against Palestinian children.
Fars News Agency in an article says Netanyahu’s call for helping Iranian
children is sheer hypocrisy.
The report says Netanyahu sheds crocodile tears for Iranian children and
teenagers while his government has a dark record in violating
the Palestinian children’s rights.
During the 70-year history of the Israeli regime, Palestinian children have
lived in the harshest conditions, the article wrote.
The prosecution of Palestinian children in Israeli military courts for acts like
throwing stones is systematic, and violates the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, the article said.
According to a report released by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC),
"Israel is the only state in the world that systematically prosecutes children
in military courts – between 500 and 700 each year. The Israel Prison Service
revealed that an average of 204 Palestinian children have been held in custody
every month since 2012.”
According to a report by the Israeli rights group B’tselem, the Israeli regime
currently has near 300 Palestinian minors in its prisons.
"At the end of May 2018, 291 Palestinian minors were held in Israeli prisons as
security detainees and prisoners, including 3 administrative detainees. Another
6 Palestinian minors were held in Israel Prison Service facilities for being in
Israel illegally,” it says.
Of note, 60% of Palestinian children arrested by Israel were verbally,
physically or psychologically tortured, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’
Club (PPC).
As recently as Wednesday, a group of senior UN officials voiced concerns over
the violation of children’s rights in Gaza.
"Senior UN humanitarian officials in the Occupied Palestinian Territory have
expressed their deep concern for the continued violation of children’s rights in
and around the Gaza strip,” said Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for UN
Secretary-General at a news briefing.
Source:IFP