Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made concerning the treatment of children in military detention in Israel following the recommendations made by the report on the matter funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Since the publication in June of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office-funded independent report on Children in Military Custody, there has been some limited progress. This includes a pilot project 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.