An international children's rights charity has said it has evidence that Palestinian children held in Israeli custody have been subjected to sexual abuse in an effort to extract confessions from them.<br /><br />The Geneva-based Defence for Children International (DCI) has collected 100 sworn affadavits from Palestinian children who said they were mistreated by their Israeli captors.<br /><br />Fourteen of the statements say they were sexually abused or threatened with sexual assault to pressure them into confessions.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Nour Odeh met with one of the children, identified only as N, who says he suffered sexual abuse at the hands of his interrogators.<br /><br />[May, 30, 2010]
