Soldiers attempt to detain kids age 2 and 9

[lego 44,165]

JERUSALEM (Ma'an) --

 

Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem on Friday attempted to detain two Palestinian children, a two-year-old and a nine-year old, on suspicion of throwing rocks.

Israeli soldiers were conducting a raid on the home of the Jaber family in the Silwan neighborhood in order to search for an individual suspected of throwing rocks at them from the roof, the family told Ma'an.

 

When the soldiers ascended to the roof to detain the alleged culprit, however, they found a two-year-old named Mimati Asaad Jaber who was playing with his mother. While they were playing, apparently, a rock had fallen into the street below.

The boy's grandfather, who was in the house during the raid, said that the boy was only playing and that he did not know there were soldiers in the street below the building when he tossed the stone.

 

Upon seeing the two-year-old with his mother, however, the Israeli soldiers shifted their attention to a nine-year-old member of the family nearby.

 

Members of the Jaber family told Ma'an that once Israeli soldiers found out the nine-year-old boy's name -- Izz al-Din al-Qassam, also the name of a famous Palestinian national hero and used by Hamas as the name for its military brigades -- they began questioning him.

The Israeli soldiers attempted to detain the nine-year-old boy based on the fact that he had "colored rocks" in his pockets, presumably to throw at soldiers, but when they searched the child they found that the "rocks" were in fact candy.

 

A new draft law being considered by Israeli lawmakers would lead to charges of up to 20 years, even if it could not be proven that rock-throwers intended to cause damage.

 

A 2011 report by Israeli rights group B'tselem, meanwhile, noted that around 100 percent of all Palestinian children accused of rock-throwing are convicted, largely because minors are kept in prison for the duration of any trial so the pressure to plea bargain is high.

 

Military Court Watch estimated that at the beginning of October more than 180 Palestinian children and youths were being held in Israeli prisons, down from 250 in June.

 

According to a 2013 report by the UN's Children's Fund, Israel is the only country in the world where children are systematically tried in military courts and subjected to "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment."

 

Over the past decade, Israeli forces have arrested, interrogated, and prosecuted around 7,000 children between 12 and 17, mostly boys, at a rate of "an average of two children each day," UNICEF said.

 

 

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=736653

[Dolev 867]

The main topic was closed due to your propadandist flood. respect it.

[monsterdreams 1,529]

This is stupid

The main topic was closed due to your propadandist flood. respect it.

And this

[lego 44,165]

The main topic was closed due to your propadandist flood. respect it.

 

 

No one asked you anything Dolev. And it was closed due to you being unable to discuss anything without throwing personal insults. 

 

Adam closed it temporarily. 

[Dolev 867]

No one asked you anything Dolev. And it was closed due to you being unable to discuss anything without throwing personal insults. 

 

Adam closed it temporarily. 

[RAMROD 117,045]

[UC PiXELVISION 353]

These idiots. It's almost like their patriotism to Israel is making them blind and inhumane.

Get out. You dont belong in a community that preaches love when you justify hate. Get. Out. Of. Here.

Not once have you said, dolev, that "You know what? Maybe my country is doing SOMETHING wrong here."

/rant

[Dolev 867]

These idiots. It's almost like their patriotism to Israel is making them blind and inhumane.

Get out. You dont belong in a community that preaches love when you justify hate. Get. Out. Of. Here.

I will. The day gays could live freely in Gaza. 

[Zilla 13,451]

This is why the other thread was closed. If you can't discuss things maturely and respectfully, this thread will go too. Be nice :)

[UC PiXELVISION 353]

I will. The day gays could live freely in Gaza. 

THOUSANDS ARE PEOPLE DYING AND THATS YOUR STUPID JUSTIFICATION?

[EXCXSXE 0]

These idiots. It's almost like their patriotism to Israel is making them blind and inhumane.

Get out. You dont belong in a community that preaches love when you justify hate. Get. Out. Of. Here.

Not once have you said, dolev, that "You know what? Maybe my country is doing SOMETHING wrong here."

/rant

 

Same goes for certain people who use this section as a place to "educate" the members of this board with ridiculously biased articles... 

[UC PiXELVISION 353]

This is why the other thread was closed. If you can't discuss things maturely and respectfully, this thread will go too. Be nice :)

I'm sorry, I'll try to be nicer. My emotions get a little ... Emotional.

Same goes for certain people who use this section as a place to "educate" the members of this board with ridiculously biased articles...

I agree. Yet some people believe that every article against their country is propoganda and false. Why not do a little research before disspelling it as false?

[Dolev 867]

THOUSANDS ARE PEOPLE DYING AND THATS YOUR STUPID JUSTIFICATION?

K. Is Israel to blame for...? what exactly? having its soliders attacked? find something that is more reliable than Palestinian press.

[EXCXSXE 0]

I'm sorry, I'll try to be nicer. My emotions get a little ... Emotional.

I agree. Yet some people believe that every article against their country is propoganda and false. Why not do a little research before disspelling it as false?

 

I think that applies to both sides and it would be excellent if everyone could abide by that.  ;)

[lego 44,165]

Unfortunately this is not the first time children were treated this way

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl6YGt7O9eM

 

On 9 July 2013, soldiers in Hebron detained Wadi' Maswadeh, a five-year-old Palestinian boy, after he threw a stone. The soldiers forced the crying, frightened child into a military jeep and drove him home. There, they waited for his father to arrive, threatened the family, and led both father and son to a checkpoint, where they blindfolded and handcuffed the father. The two were detained at the checkpoint for about an half an hour, after which they were handed over to the Palestinian police. In total, the boy was detained for some two hours. There is no legal basis whatsoever for detaining a child under the age of criminal responsibility. The incident was filmed by B'Tselem field researchers and a B’Tselem camera volunteer. The clip shown here is a compiled synopsis of the footage

 

 

Soldiers detained 4 children ages six to nine, handcuffed 3 of them. Kafr Qadum, November 15, 2013.

http://www.btselem.org/demonstrations/20131203_minors_detained_in_kafr_qadum

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkIPsGnMqQw

 

 

On 19 Oct. 2014 soldiers briefly detain developmentally disabled Palestinian boy. A-Rajbi is a month shy of 12, the age of criminal responsibility. Detained after Palestinian children threw stones at soldiers in Jabel Johar, Hebron, near the settlement of Kiryat Arba, he was handcuffed, blindfolded and held on the floor of a jeep for approx. 15 minutes until his father came and convinced the soldiers of his son’s disabilities. Footage by B’Tselem camera volunteer Samih Da’na: 1) Soldiers handcuff and blindfold a-Rajbi despite cries by locals that he is developmentally disabled. 2) Settlers look on from behind Kiryat Arba’s fence. Some cheer; others make racist remarks.

 

The source  B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

 

This is why the other thread was closed. If you can't discuss things maturely and respectfully, this thread will go too. Be nice :)

 

Zilla, can you please delete off topic posts and gifs? They derail a serious thread, these are basic human/children rights and there needs to be awareness.