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Sunday, January 25, 2009

Seven Children Seized, Jailed by Israeli Military Near Jenin

Seven children have been seized from their homes in the village of Toura Al-Gharbiyah, near Jenin, the organization Defense for Children International (DCI) reports.

The children are currently detained in Salim detention center in the north of the West Bank. Two of the children are only 12 years old; two are 13; another two are aged 15; and the seventh is 17.

A DCI lawyer who visited the children said that after the children were pulled from their homes at 4am on Tuesday, Israeli intelligence, police and army held the children in a public building in the village, and interrogated them.

They were alleged to have thrown stones at the Israeli separation wall and were intimidated into confessing, according to DCI.

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