The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz said that the Israeli security forces arrest about a thousand Palestinian children every year from the streets, schools and homes from the West Bank, and about a thousand others from East Jerusalem.

The newspaper considered that the practices used to detain thousands of Palestinian children and boys are of an abusive nature to physical and mental health, to the extent that they are prohibited by international laws and agreements related to children's rights, to which Israel is a signatory.

These practices include arresting in the middle of the night and removing the child, whom Israel describes as "wanted", from the middle of his bed, by arresting him without a court order, without explanation, handcuffing and blindfolding him, and preventing his parents, a family member, or a lawyer from accompanying him, as well as Beatings, insults, and more.

She emphasized that children are exposed to physical pain and psychological pressure, and they go through difficult experiences of loneliness, extreme fear, confusion, humiliation, helplessness, and sometimes a sense of danger of death.

She said: "These are traumatic experiences that are etched in the memory, affect the personality and lead to a real risk of mental illness in the children themselves and among family members and society as a whole, and may seriously and irreversibly harm the further development of the children, the ability to adapt to life in a normative manner and the basic sense of safety." Noting that many children reported severe post-traumatic symptoms that continued after their release.