A United Nations report detailed the hapless condition of Palestinian children tortured and used as human shields by the Israeli Forces.

The report from the United Nations aimed to condemn "continuous use of Palestinian children as human shields and informants", stating that 14 cases had been reported from January 2010 to march 2013 alone.

According to the United Nations human rights body, "Palestinian children arrested by Israeli military and police are systematically subject to degrading treatment, and often to acts of torture, are interrogated in Hebrew, a language they did not understand, and sign confessions in Hebrew in order to be released."

"Hundreds of Palestinian children have been killed and thousands injured over the reporting period as a result of the state party military operations, especially in Gaza where the state party proceeded to conduct air and naval strikes on densely populated areas with a significant presence of children, thus disregarding the principles of proportionally and distinction."

The report also emphasized that the Israeli forces instruct Palestinian children to enter a potentially dangerous building before the forces enter. Palestinian children were also used as human barricades to protect military vehicles when people throw stones at them.

"Almost all those using children as human shield and informants have remained unpunished and the soldiers convicted for having forced at gunpoint a nine-year-old child to search bags suspected of containing explosives only received a suspended sentence of three months and were demoted."

According to a UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the maltreatment of the Palestinian children by Israeli forces dates back as far back as 1967 when children captured during the war were denied registration of their birth certificate and access to health care. They were also forbidden to go to decent schools, even to drink clean water.

During the 10-year battle of Israel against Palestinian, there were approximately 7,000 Palestinian children, aged nine to seventeen, arrested, interrogated and detained. They were brought with leg chains and shackles before military courts. Some were subjected to solitary confinement that usually went on for several months.

UN criticized Israel's "resistant refusal" to gather information about children subjected to such cruelty within the Palestinian territories and the Syrian Golan Heights. The UN had been requesting for information since 2002.

Meanwhile, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said that Israel had already responded to a previous UNICEF report on the case of the Palestinian children alleging that the United Nations report did not cover new ground.

According to Israel Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor, "If someone simply wants to magnify their political bias and political bashing of Israel not based on a new report, on work on the ground, but simply recycling old stuff, there is no importance on that."

A Norwegian expert, Kirsten Sandberg, who spearheaded the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child defended that the UN report was based on facts and not on the political opinions of its members.

In an interview with Reuters, Ms. Sandberg said that Israel refused to acknowledge its jurisdiction over the Palestinian territories and had been avoiding its responsibility to comply with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.