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veröffentlicht
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ABC
Australia
documentary:
A joint
investigation
by Four
Corners
and The
Australian
newspaper
reveals
evidence
that
shows
the army
is
targeting
Palestinian
boys for
arrest
and
detention.
Reporter
John
Lyons
travels
to the
West
Bank to
hear the
story of
children
who
claim
they
have
been
taken
into
custody,
ruthlessly
questioned
and then
allegedly
forced
to sign
confessions
before
being
taken to
court
for
sentencing.
He meets
Australian
lawyer
Gerard
Horton,
who's
trying
to help
the boys
who are
arrested,
and
talks to
senior
Israeli
officials
to
examine
what's
driving
the
army's
strategy.
The
United
Nations
children's
agency
(UNICEF)
has been
investigating
these
claims
and last
year
released
a
scathing
report
finding
that "children
have
been
threatened
with
death,
physical
violence,
solitary
confinement
and
sexual
assault."
As Four
Corners
discovered,
though,
Palestinian
children
have
more to
fear
than the
Israeli
army.
Reporter
John
Lyons
shows
clear
evidence
that
Israeli
settlers
in the
West
Bank
regularly
attack
Palestinian
school
children,
knowing
the
authorities
will not
intervene.
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This
program
is the
Investigative
Journalism
Walkley
Award
winner
for
2014.
- 10
February
2014 -
The
Israeli
army is
both
respected
and
feared
as a
fighting
force.
But now
the
country's
military
is
facing a
backlash
at home
and
abroad
for its
treatment
of
children
in the
West
Bank,
occupied
territory.
Coming
up, a
joint
investigation
by Four
Corners
and The
Australian
newspaper
reveals
evidence
that
shows
the army
is
targeting
Palestinian
boys for
arrest
and
detention.
Reporter
John
Lyons
travels
to the
West
Bank to
hear the
story of
children
who
claim
they
have
been
taken
into
custody,
ruthlessly
questioned
and then
allegedly
forced
to sign
confessions
before
being
taken to
court
for
sentencing.
He meets
Australian
lawyer
Gerard
Horton,
who's
trying
to help
the boys
who are
arrested,
and
talks to
senior
Israeli
officials
to
examine
what's
driving
the
army's
strategy.
The
program
focuses
on the
stories
of three
boys. In
two
cases
the army
came for
the
children
in the
middle
of the
night,
before
taking
them to
unknown
locations
where
they are
questioned.
A mother
of one
of the
boys
described
the
scene:
"Every
soldier
stood at
the door
of a
room. I
was
telling
him 'What
do you
want
with him?'
He said
'Shut up
woman.'
And then
they
started
hitting
him and
pulling
him out
of bed."
"They
started
kicking
me with
their
boots in
my
stomach,
slaps on
my face.
They
pulled
me up by
my
t-shirt
and took
me out
of bed."
Arrested
boy
Is this,
as many
Israelis
suggest,
simply
part of
the
drive to
maintain
security?
Or is it,
as
Palestinians
claim,
part of
a much
wider
plan to
make
life in
the West
Bank
intolerable
for them?
"I think
that
they
want to
kick us
out of
here and
drive us
away
because
they
don't
want
Arabs in
this
area."
It's a
claim
that's
dismissed
out of
hand by
Israel's
Ministry
of
Foreign
Affairs:
"Let me
say this
very
clearly.
There is
no such
policy.
A policy
to
create
fear?
There is
no such
thing.
The only
policy
is to
maintain
law and
order,
that's
all. If
there's
no
violence,
there's
no law
enforcement."
Yigal
Palmor
The
United
Nations
children's
agency
(UNICEF)
has been
investigating
these
claims
and last
year
released
a
scathing
report
finding
that "children
have
been
threatened
with
death,
physical
violence,
solitary
confinement
and
sexual
assault."
As Four
Corners
discovered,
though,
Palestinian
children
have
more to
fear
than the
Israeli
army.
Reporter
John
Lyons
shows
clear
evidence
that
Israeli
settlers
in the
West
Bank
regularly
attack
Palestinian
school
children,
knowing
the
authorities
will not
intervene.
He also
discovers
there
are two
legal
systems
operating.
One for
Israeli
children
and one
for
young
Palestinians.
It's an
impossible
situation
that may
provide
temporary
security
for
Israel,
but in
the long
term may
well
breed a
new
generation
of
Palestinians
prepared
to do
anything
to gain
retribution.
STONE
COLD
JUSTICE,
reported
by John
Lyons
and
presented
by Kerry
O'Brien,
goes to
air on
Monday
10th
February
at
8.30pm
on ABC1.
It is
replayed
on
Tuesday
11th
February
at
11.35pm.
It can
also be
seen on
ABC News
24 on
Saturday
at
8.00pm,
ABC
iview
and at
abc.net.au/4corners.
Transcript
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