; (B) under Israeli military law, children do not have the right to a lawyer during interrogation; (C) 97 percent of the children did not have a parent present during their interrogation; (D) 84 percent of the children were not properly informed of their rights by Israeli police; (E) interrogators used stress positions, threats of violence, and isolation to coerce confessions from detained children; and (F) 66 children were held in pre-trial, pre-charge isolation for interrogation purposes for an average period of 13 days. (15) Amendments to Israeli military law concerning the detention of Palestinian children have had little to no impact on the treatment of children during the first 24 to 48 hours after an arrest, when the majority of their ill-treatment occurs. (16) In 2002, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, which monitors implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, reviewed Israel's compliance with the Convention and expressed serious concern regarding allegations and complaints of inhuman or degrading practices and of torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian children during arrest, interrogation, and detention. (17) In 2013, the Committee declared that Palestinian children arrested by Israeli forces continue to be systematically subject to degrading treatment, and often to acts of torture and that Israel had fully disregarded the previous recommendations of the Committee to comply with international law. 3. Purpose The purpose of this Act is to promote and protect the human rights of Palestinian children and to ensure that United States taxpayer funds shall not be used to support the military detention of Palestinian children. 4. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that the detention and prosecution of Palestinian children in a military court system by the Government of Israel— (1) violates international law and internationally recognized standards of human rights