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UN expresses alarm over Israeli law allowing life sentences for 12-year-olds (aje.io)
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Independent experts with the United Nations Human Rights Council say an Israeli law allowing children as young as 12 to be sentenced to life in prison could violate the Convention on the Rights of the Child, an international agreement Israel ratified in October 1991.

“UN experts express alarm at two new Israeli terrorism laws that permit life imprisonment for 12-year-olds and arbitrary suspension of child welfare payments, violating the human rights of Palestinian children,” they said in a social media post.

The group of legal experts said the Knesset passed an amendment to an existing law in November 2024 allowing courts to sentence children as young as 12 to life in prison “if convicted of murder or attempted murder classified as a ‘terror act'” or if “the act was performed as part of the operations of a terrorist organization and aimed at advancing its objectives”.

Israeli military law in the occupied West Bank already permits Israeli authorities to imprison Palestinian children as young as 12 years old, the experts noted.

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