The Commission of Detainees' Affairs revealed in report issued today that the Israeli occupation seeks to deprive minors from Jerusalem their Palestinian identity through a series of violation against them in particular.

This issue has been discussed in a meeting organized by the Commission,  attended by many released minor detainees from Jerusalem, the released detainee Durgham A'raaj as their representative, Amjad Abu Asab the head of minor detainees' of Jerusalem committee and many lawyers from the commission to document minors' testimonies on the violations they were subjected to in prison.

The Head of the commission Qadri Abu Baker stated that the occupation's policies against minors aim at isolating Jerusalem from the rest of the Palestinian cities, in an attempt to destroy the future of the Palestinian people.

The released detainee Durgham A'raaj reviewed the practices of Israeli occupation authorities against minors from Jerusalem, which aim at taking out their national identity, in an attempt to control their minds in this sensitive age in a way that violates all moral conventions guaranteed by the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

A'raaj stated that the occupation introduces dangerous alternatives of actual imprisonment, to avoid the integration between minors from Jerusalem and minors from the West Bank. Thus, minors from Jerusalem got separated in different sections to integrate them with Israeli criminal prisoners. This happened when they transferred many of them to Ofek criminals' prison, where in many cases minors where subjected to beating, cursing and stealing their personal belongings.

In addition, occupation authorities transfer minors to "Israeli Social Shelters", in which they got integrated with Israeli criminals. They are provided with curriculums that aim at "how to be an Israeli". They provide minors with weed by a psychological advisor and give them sedative medications at day hours and hypnotics at night which lead to addiction.

A'raaj discussed the topic of house detention, in which family became jailor against their son, after committing themselves to watch and confine their son and prevent him from being integrated with the society. This leaves bad psychological effects on the child and creates a state of aggression and excessive nervousness. Then, the child is transferred to actual imprisonment after he ends his house detention.

The Commission confirmed that the Legal department at the Commission of Detainees' Affairs had listened to testimonies of released minors from Jerusalem, and now it works on documenting forms and under oath testimonies of many minor detainees from Jerusalem to complain and try to put an end to these Israeli policies.