[Al Ahram] A United Nations...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
body accused Israeli forces on Thursday of mistreating Paleostinian children, including by torturing those in jug and using others as human shields.
Paleostinian children in the Gazoo Strip and the West Bank, captured by Israel in the 1967 war, are routinely denied registration of their birth and access to health care, decent schools and clean water, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child said.
"Paleostinian children locked away
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
by (Israeli) military and police are systematically subject to degrading treatment, and often to acts of torture, are interrogated in Hebrew, a language they did not understand, and sign confessions in Hebrew in order to be released," it said in a report.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said it had responded to a report by the UN children's agency UNICEF in March on ill-treatment of Paleostinian minors and questioned whether the UN committee's investigation covered new ground.
"If someone simply wants to magnify their political bias and political bashing of Israel not based on a new report, on work on the ground, but simply recycling old stuff, there is no importance in that," front man Yigal Palmor said.
