Israel arrests Palestinian children for Facebook posts

As Facebook gives the Israeli government more access to posts deemed as “incitement”, Israeli forces have been raiding the homes of Palestinians children and detaining them for months over posts on the social media site, a report by the Defence for Children International-Palestine (DCIP) said on October 17.

The group spoke with several Palestinian minors who were arrested for their Facebook posts, interrogated for hours and held in jail for months without charges under the Israeli policy of “administrative detention”.

Administrative detention allows Israeli authorities to keep Palestinians in jail indefinitely without charges.

Read the article on Green Left Weekly (abridged from TeleSUR English.)