JENIN, Sunday, December 06, 2020 (WAFA) - Two Palestinian minor detainees, aged 17, was released today after spending a three-year sentence in Israeli jails, according to the Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

Director of PPS Office Muntaser Mansour told WAFA Israeli forces detained Ahmad Zaqzooq and Mohammed Abu Maryam, from Jenin's village of al-Jadida, after shooting and injuring them near Zaatara military checkpoint to the south of Nablus three years ago.

Israeli forces opened fire at Zaqzooq and Abu Maryam at Zaatara checkpoint before detaining them. Zaqzooq was struck in the knee with a live bullet, whereas Abu Maryam had a gunshot to the thigh.
They spent two months at Ramala prison hospital before being transferred to Ofer jail and then to Megiddo prison, where they spent the rest of their imprisonment sentence.

At the end of September 2020, 157 Palestinian minors were held in Israeli prisons as security detainees and prisoners, at least two of whom were held in administrative detention, said B'Tselem, the Israeli information center for human rights in the occupied territories.

Each year approximately 500-700 Palestinian children from the occupied West Bank are prosecuted in Israeli military courts after being arrested, interrogated, and detained by the Israeli army, police, and security agents.

T.R.