This month the Global Campaign has turned it’s focus
to immigration detention of children in Israel.
Arrest and detention of children of migrants and
asylum seekers in Israel has become the default, rather than the last course of
action. In recent years hundreds of boys and girls, between the ages of 0-18,
have found themselves in detention facilities without healthcare, without an
education, without appropriate care and accompaniment of mental health
professionals.
Hundreds of children could be prevented from being
placed in immigration detention by using community-based alternatives, as is
done in many other countries.
The international focus activities were held during
the Jewish Festival of Passover, which celebrates freedom, advocating that this
children should be extended to all children in Israel.
