Jordan’s queen highlights plight of Palestinian children in Israeli prisons

The world has “turned a blind eye” for “decades” to the plight of Palestinian children in Israel’s “notoriously brutal prison system,” Jordan’s Queen Rania said on Tuesday at a meeting attended by Arab News on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

“They’re arbitrarily taken into custody, denied due process and held indefinitely,” she added. “Most parents can barely allow themselves to imagine it —…