Khaberni - A 14-year-old Palestinian child, who is 100% autistic, has been subjected to horrifying physical, sexual, and psychological violations from the moment of his arrest to the present.
This incident reveals the brutality of the Israeli authorities and their complete disregard for children's rights and the rights of the disabled.
According to a report published by the Hebrew newspaper "Haaretz", the boy, a resident of Jaffa, was arrested on October 31 after Israeli military forces raided his relatives' home in the West Bank at dawn, causing chaos and terror.
His mother recounts: "Dozens of soldiers entered at four-thirty in the morning, pointing their rifles and lights at the children in their room. My son was so terrified that he couldn't stand on his feet."
Despite his medical diagnosis as a fully disabled person due to autism, and although the family insists that he "was not involved in anything," the Israeli police accuse him of "contact with Hamas and ISIS," "photographing locations in Israel," and "attempting to prepare explosives," accusations described by human rights activists as exaggerated and disproportionate to his health and psychological condition.
The most shocking thing, as revealed by "Haaretz", is that the child repeatedly alerted that he "is forced to do things" by his older cellmates, yet Judge Tal Levitas, during the juvenile court session, did not order his transfer or protection. Only after he was explicitly sexually assaulted was an investigation opened against the attackers, and the child was placed in solitary confinement, not for his protection, but after the disaster had occurred.
His mother says: "I wait by the phone all day, fearing they will call and say something bad has happened to him... I felt cold all last night even though the weather was warm, feeling the way he does."
The case not only shows Israel's harsh treatment of Palestinian children but also exposes how the Israeli judicial and security system subjects a disabled child to severe security accusations, with no regard for his human condition or his basic rights as a minor and disabled person, in a blatant violation of international law, particularly the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Human rights activists and specialists say that in Israeli prisons, a Palestinian child is not treated as a child, nor is a disabled person seen as a human deserving protection. Instead, he is turned into a number in a security file, left vulnerable to abuse, fear, and breakdown.
