Ref: 92/2018
The Palestinian Center for Human rights (PCHR) is gravely concerned over the incident of severe beating of a 13-year-old child in ‘Abasan village, east of Khan Younis, by persons at a mosque. PCHR follows up with concern the following consequences of the incident and subjecting the child along with his father to arresting and investigation after an interview conducted with the child’s father at Palestine TV. PCHR calls upon the Attorney General in Gaza to investigate the severe beating incident of the child at the mosque and to comply with the Child Protection Standards in Palestinian Laws, in particular the Palestinian Child Law of 2004.
According to PCHR’s follow-up, on Monday afternoon, 20 August 2018, a group of young men severely beat a child identified as A. M. ‘A. (13). They locked him in a room at Isma’il Abu Shanab Mosque in ‘Abasan al-Kabirah village, and fixed him on a pillar at the mosque for many hours. After that, they beat him with an electric wire and attacked him by feet throughout his body. One of the assaulters claimed that they found him in the mosque’s bathroom trying to assault an 8-year-old child from his relatives.
The incident sparked a wave of denunciation on social mediaوon social media e.uring ahild Ag incident of the child in the mosque and to and some photos that show the beating signs were published after broadcasting a report about the child mentioned above on Palestine TV. The report included interviews with the child and his parents, in which they talked about the assault incident and accused Hamas movement of being behind that. As a result, the police arrested the child and his father and placed the child in al- Rabee’ Social Welfare Institution in Gaza.
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