[20 June 2013] - Following a review of Israel's combined second, third and fourth periodic reports under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Committee on the Rights of the Child has published its Concluding Observations including recommendations.

[11 June 2013] - The Israeli Ministry of Justice has announced that complaints made against Israeli Security Agency interrogators will no longer be conducted by a serving ISA employee. Since 2001, there have been 750 complaints without a single criminal investigation.

[30 April 2013] - In April the US State Department released its annual global report on human rights for 2012. The report includes a section on Israel/Palestine and an examination of the treatment of minors detained by the Israeli military and prosecuted in military courts.

[1 April 2013] - Military Order 1711 came into effect on 1 April 2013. The order reduces the time period in which a child must be brought before a military judge following arrest. Children aged 12 and 13 must now be brought before a judge within 24 hours of arrest, and 48 hours for older children.

[6 March 2013] - On 6 March 2013, UNICEF published the report - Children in Israeli Military Detention - which concluded that the mistreatment of Palestinian children in the military detention system "appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalised throughout the process".