Pope Francis' representative in the Holy Land said on Monday he was willing to exchange himself for Israeli children taken hostage by Hamas and held in Gaza.
What is Hamas going to do with a catholic priest?
They want to exchange Israeli hostages for all the Palestinian men, women and children that Israel is holding hostage in Israeli prisons.
At the end of June 2023, the Israel Prison Service (IPS) was holding 147 Palestinian minors in detention or in prison on what it defined “security” grounds. At that time, the IPS was also holding 26 Palestinian minors for being in Israel illegally.
What is Hamas going to do with a catholic priest? They want to exchange Israeli hostages for all the Palestinian men, women and children that Israel is holding hostage in Israeli prisons.
Israel is holding palestinian children in prison? What?
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
Yes they are. The charges in most cases? Stone throwing. I’ll add a few links for you to get started.
https://www.dci-palestine.org/children_in_israeli_detention
https://www.btselem.org/statistics/minors_in_custody
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/10/palestinian-children-abused-in-israeli-detention-ngo
This is awful. Thanks for sharing. ☹️