The Israeli army has arrested and beaten children as young as seven in the West Bank amid its indiscriminate war on Gaza.

At least 640 Palestinian children were detained by Israeli forces in the West Bank since the start of the war in Gaza, with many of them tortured and abused, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said on Monday.

Child detainees have been subject to “acts of abuse, torture, and medical crimes to which adult prisoners are also exposed to in Israeli prisons,” the group said as cited, by the Turkish Anadolu agency.

The total number includes those who have been released, and the Palestinian Prisoners Club said at least 250 minors remain in prison, and are subject to ill treatment.

On Sunday, Israeli authorities arrested a seven-year-old identified as Bahaa Kazem Haj Mohammed in the village of Al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah, the group said, before releasing him hours later. …