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Another tactic involves spraying phosphorous green "skunk water" into homes and workplaces, emitting an unhealthy stench lasting weeks. It not only damages property, it harms human health and constitutes humiliating and degrading treatment.
Military zones are also established, repressively closing and isolating villages, Bi'lin and Ni'lin two examples, closed every Friday from 8AM - 8PM to prevent demonstrations. Residents participating are targeted, assaulted and arrested, their property damaged, including by randomly fired tear gas into agricultural fields, igniting fires, consuming large areas of land, homes and other property.
Targeting Children
They're assaulted and arrested for their activism or presence near demonstrations, Defence of Children International (DCI) recording 335 detained in April 2010 alone, 32 aged 12 - 15, two held in administrative detention without charge. In May, another 305 were detained, 25 aged 12 - 15, two held administratively. Usually they're accused of stone-throwing whether or not true. Yet they're brutally treated in detention, as harshly as adults.
In 2009, DCI obtained 100 sworn affidavits, collected by lawyers and fieldworkers, citing the following forms of mistreatment:
-- shackling;
-- blindfolding;
-- forced confessions in Hebrew;
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