Palestinian Children and Israeli Military Detention

Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall at 2:30 pm on 7 February 2018.

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Photo of Andrew Slaughter Andrew Slaughter Labour, Hammersmith 2:30, 7 February 2018

I was last in the west bank in November—I have declared that in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests—and I visited a family whose young son had been seized in the middle of the night and detained. He was in administrative detention. Does my hon. Friend agree that, in one respect, things have got worse since our last debate, because Israel has started using administrative detention—detention without charge for unlimited periods? That must be wrong on any basis.