This report considers internal accountability mechanisms. Ever since B’Tselem was established more than 25 years ago, it has applied to the MAG Corps regarding hundreds of incidents in which Palestinians were harmed by soldiers, demanding the incidents be investigated. Since the second intifada began in late 2000, B’Tselem has demanded an investigation in 739 cases.

This report highlights global trends regarding the impact of armed conflict on children in 20 locations, including Israel and Palestine. In 2015 there was an increase in the number of Palestinian children arrested and detained by Israeli forces and prosecuted by juvenile military courts in the West Bank. A worrisome development was the recommencement of administrative detention of children.

This report covers human rights abuses during 2015. After referring to UNICEF's 2013 finding that ill-treatment of children held in Israeli military detention appears to be "widespread, systematic and institutionalised", the State Department referred to recent reports indicating that 61 per cent of minors continue to report being subjected to physical violence and 96 per cent are denied timely access to a lawyer.

This submission reviews recent developments in the military courts as well as analysing 163 testimonies collected from children detained by the Israeli military in 2015. The submission concludes that despite a number of changes to the system, UNICEF's 2013 finding that "the ill-treatment of children who come in contact with the military detention system appears to be widespread, systematic and institulionised" still applies.

This document compiles the key findings arising from police and military responses to Freedom of Information requests sent by ACRI concerning the arrests of Palestinian minors. This forms part of ACRI’s monitoring of the activities of the military rule in the Occupied Territories. The figures appearing herein relate only to the year 2014 and only to the West Bank Area.

This report includes a section on the detention of Palestinian children. With respect to the situation of child detainees, the Special Rapporteur expressed astonishment at the openly discriminatory approach signalled by the rejection by Israel of the following recommendation: take all steps necessary to ensure that Palestinian children in military custody receive the same level of care and rights as provided by Israeli criminal law.

This submission focuses on the policy of successive Israeli governments of forcibly transferring Palestinian prisoners from the occupied West Bank to prisons located inside Israel in violation of the Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (Fourth Geneva Convention) and the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute).

This report covers human rights abuses during 2014. The report notes that Israeli authorities continue to apply two distinct legal systems in the West Bank, one military and one civilian, depending on whether the individual is Palestinian or an Israeli settler. For Palestinians prosecuted in the military court system, the State Department notes that the conviction rate remains above 99 percent.

This submission analyses 200 testimonies of children held in military detention since 2013. The submission notes that ill-treatment still appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalised and notes a strong link between the detention of Palestinians in the West Bank and the policy of successive Israeli governments of encouraging its citizens to move to occupied territory in violation of international law.

This report highlights global trends regarding the impact of armed conflict on children in 23 locations, including Israel and Palestine. In 2014, the UN documented 122 cases of children from the West Bank detained by Israeli forces in which they stated they had been subjected to ill-treatment, such as beatings, hit with sticks, blindfolded, kicked and subjected to verbal abuse and threats of sexual violence.