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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 "assaults" 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 charge them or release them," 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. The trial, 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 recent violence in the Gaza Strip, which is before the UN Security Council, is expected to continue Tuesday in the Middle East.
Zeid also criticized what he calls arbitrary detention and arrest of rights activists
The Gaza Strip, controlled by the Islamist Hamas movement, has been under Israeli blockade for more than 10 years.
But since the end of March, blockade sparked widespread protests along Israel border: fewer than 149 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier died
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra & ad Al Hussein, criticizes the "administrative detention" of hundreds of Palestinian children by Israel
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