{"id":184422,"date":"1990-11-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=184422"},"modified":"2019-03-11T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:43:09","slug":"auto-insert-184422","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-184422\/","title":{"rendered":"Human rights in OPT\/Arrests of children &#8211; PLO letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:30px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">QUESTION OF THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES, INCLUDING PALESTINE\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><u>Letter dated 27 November 1990 from the Permanent Observer for <\/u><br \/>\n<u>Palestine to the United Nations Office at Geneva <\/u><br \/>\n<u>addressed to the Under-Secretary-General for Human Rights<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">1. The Israeli occupation authorities have arrested two children, Zafer Farid Attawil, aged 14, and Ala&#39; Salah Warrad, also aged 14, from Al-Nuri sector of Jerusalem, and, on 18 November 1990, have extended their detention.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">2. During their arrest, the two children were severely beaten by the Israeli occupation authorities and one of them, Ala&#39; Salah Warrad, had to be transferred to an Israeli hospital due to the beatings.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">3. This crime against the Palestinian children in the occupied territories stresses the contents of international reports on arrest, torture and killing of children by the Israeli occupation authorities, and particularly the reports of the Secretary-General to the Security Council and the reports of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and other Arabs of the Occupied Territories.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">4. Moreover, these facts renew the assertion that, unless the Israeli occupation authorities withdraw from the Palestinian Occupied Territories, unless, Pending this withdrawal, the international community secures international protection of the Palestinian people under occupation, such crimes will continue against our people, crimes which continuously violate principles of international law, of international humanitarian law as well the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">5. We, hereby, kindly request you to take the necessary measures to distribute this memorandum as an official document of the next session of the Commission on Human Rights.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><u>Signed<\/u>) Nabil RAMLAWI<br \/>\n<u>Permanent Observer for the Palestine <\/u><br \/>\n<u>to the United Nations Office at Geneva<\/u><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New, serif, monospace;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">* *** *<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUESTION OF THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES, INCLUDING PALESTINE Letter dated 27 November 1990 from the Permanent Observer for Palestine to the United Nations Office at Geneva addressed to the Under-Secretary-General for Human Rights 1. 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