Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) Palestinian women and (b) Palestinian children detained in Israel.

We do not hold figures on the number of Palestinian women and children detained in Israel. We have been consistently clear that all detainees must be treated with dignity and in full accordance with international law. The UK continues to urge the Government of Israel to allow the International Committee of the Red Cross immediate and unfettered access to all detention facilities and detainees.