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Child Prisoners and Detainees: Occupied Palestinian Territories

Debate between Lord Austin of Dudley and Naz Shah
Wednesday 6th January 2016

(8 years, 11 months ago)

Westminster Hall
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Naz Shah Portrait Naz Shah
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I will respond very briefly. The fact is that the disproportionality of someone throwing a stone or a rock and being detained for it is not acceptable. That is the reality of what is happening with children.

Lord Austin of Dudley Portrait Ian Austin
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Last February, four-year-old Adele Biton died after being critically injured by youths in a stone-throwing incident. I am just as worried as my hon. Friend is about the detention of children, but she should not minimise the crimes and violence that are taking place on the other side as well.

Naz Shah Portrait Naz Shah
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I will finish by clearly making the point that the Israeli Government have not provided any evidence of any child causing a death, or contributing to a death, using a stone. There is no evidence of that.

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