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<p>The UK has made repeated representations to Israel on their treatment of Palestinian
prisoners, including child detainees. Since the publication of the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office-funded independent report on Children in Military Custody in June 2012, there
has been some limited progress. This includes a pilot to use summons instead of night-time
arrests, and steps to reduce the amount of time a child can be detained before seeing
a judge. We have welcomed the steps taken to date, but we have called for further
measures, including the mandatory use of audio-visual recording of interrogations,
investigation into continued reports of single hand ties being used, and an end to
solitary confinement for children. The Government has been working with the delegation
who compiled the Children in Military Custody report to make a return visit to Israel
and the Occupied Palestinian Territories in the near future.</p>
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