Action Alert: Stop Israel's Abuse of Palestinian Children
Action Alert: Stop Israel's Abuse of Palestinian Children
September 2, 2010
According to the Palestine Section of Defense for Children International, each
year, about 700 Palestinian children from the West Bank are prosecuted in
Israeli military courts. Out of 100 sworn affidavits collected by lawyers in
2009, 69% of the children were beaten and kicked, 49% were threatened, 14% were
held in solitary confinement, 12% were threatened with sexual assault, including
rape, and 32% were forced to sign confessions written in Hebrew, a language they
do not understand. Israel's treatment of detained Palestinian children is
considered to be torture by the United Nations under international law.
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition calls on all its members,
supporters and people of conscience to contact the White House to demand that
the Obama administration direct the Israeli leadership, currently in Washington
DC, to immediately release and end to the systematic and institutionalized abuse
of all Palestinian children in Israeli prisons in accordance with international
law. The US government, which supports Israel to the tune of billions of
taxpayer dollars a year while most ordinary Americans are suffering in a very
bad economy, is bound by its laws to cut off all aid to Israel until it ends all
of its violations of human rights and basic freedoms in a verifiable manner.
To contact the White House, please use the online form at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Alternatively write to:
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Phone : 202-456-1414
Fax: 202-456-2461
Letters in the US may be faxed online via:
http://www.tpc.int/sendfax.html
To contact your Representatives and Senators, go to:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt?command=congdir
House members can be reached through the Capitol switchboard toll free at:
1-877-331-2000
Please cc your correspondence to
alerts@al-awda.org
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
PO Box 131352
Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA
Tel: 760-918-9441
Fax: 760-918-9442
E-mail: info@al-awda.org
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition (PRRC) is the largest network
of grassroots activists and students dedicated to education and advocacy for the
restoration of Palestinian human, national, legal, political and historical
rights in full with particular emphasis on the right of Palestinians to return
to their homes and lands of origin from which they have been dispossessed since
1948. PRRC is a not for profit tax-exempt educational and charitable 501(c)(3)
organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the United
States of America. Under IRS guidelines, your donations to PRRC are
tax-deductible. To donate, go to http://www.al-awda.org/donate.html and follow
the instructions. To become a member, go to http://www.al-awda.org/membership.html