Israeli forces detain 14-year-old Palestinian without charge or trial

Israel has issued an administrative detention order against a 14-year-old Palestinian, making him the youngest child administrative detainee on record, according to the watchdog Defence for Children International Palestine (DCIP).

Muin Ghassan Fahed Salahat was arrested by Israeli forces during a pre-dawn raid on his home in Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank on 19 February.

DCIP reported that Israeli soldiers stormed his home at 3:40am, detaining, blindfolding and cuffing his father. When Muin awoke, he was also seized, and soldiers attempted to blindfold him and his tie his hands behind his back as they took him away. Muin's father was warned not to move for at least 10 minutes.

Salahat was then issued a four-month administrative detention order on 2 March, and is now being held without charge or trial.

DCIP said he is the youngest Palestinian child to be placed under the order since the watchdog began monitoring administrative detainees in 2008.

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