The Israeli prison service released a 12-year-old girl, believed to be the youngest Palestinian female ever imprisoned, on Sunday after she confessed to planning a stabbing attack against Israelis in a West Bank settlement. In Israel, Israelis and Palestinians are tried under under separate legal systems. Israeli citizens who are under 14 cannot go to jail. Whereas Israeli children are tried in front of a civilian court judge, Palestinian children face a military judge and can be contained without seeing a lawyer for up to 90 days (an Israeli child can be detained without seeing a lawyer for up to 2 days). According to a 2013 report by UNICEF, Israel also operates “the first and only juvenile military court in operation in the world.”
— source thinkprogress.org