A record number of Palestinian children are being held in administrative detention by Israeli occupation forces, figures released by the Israel Prison Service show.

 Administrative detention “is a cruel tool used by the Israeli military to detain Palestinians, including children, on “secret charges” not presented to them or their lawyers,” DCIP added. Detainees are held for renewable period of up to six months “creating an unbearable environment of anxiety for parents and children who don’t know when they will be able to go home.”
 
According to Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, 9,500 Palestinians are currently being held in Israel’s jail, 3,880 under administrative detention. Of those detained, 200 are children and 80 are women.
Several Palestinians were dawn Wednesday killed in an Israeli airstrike on al-Jalaa Street in the city of Gaza, according to local sources.
They confirmed that Israeli warplanes targeted a house on al-Jalaa Street, killing several Palestinian civilians and injuring others.
They added that the operations rescue operations were still underway to recover the bodies from under the rubble of the house.
Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7, killing at least 34,535 Palestinians and injuring over 77,704 others.
Moreover, at least 7,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.