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The UN human rights chief on Monday urged Israel to grant more than 400 Palestinian children detained in court or to release them, decrying the "badaults" against Palestinian rights.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ad Al Hussein criticized the system of "administrative detention" according to which Israel currently holds about 440 children.
"Israel should immediately accuse them, or release them all," Zeid, based in Geneva, said by video conference, calling the Israeli system. a "fundamental violation of human rights".
"It should be absolutely clear that international law requires that detention be used only as a last resort for children," he said. trials, on evidence that is often kept secret, under often indefinitely renewable administrative detention orders, contravenes Israel's obligations under international law, and must end "
The meeting took place Is focused on recent violence in the Gaza Strip, which the UN Security Council is scheduled to resume Tuesday at a regular monthly session on the Middle East.
Zeid also criticized what he calls the arbitrary of Israel.
The Gaza Strip, controlled by the Islamist movement Hamas, is the subject of an Israeli blockade for more than 10 years.
But since the end of March, this blockade has triggered a mbadive protest along the border with Israel that has killed at least 149 Palestinians and an Israeli soldier.
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