Israeli Soldiers Arrest Five Palestinian Children

An Israeli soldier stands guard next to three Palestinian children arrested on stone-throwing charges in Hebron (al-Khalil) on March 18

Israeli soldiers detain five Palestinian children in the West Bank city of Hebron (al-Khalil) after clashes break out.

The soldiers claim that the children were pelting stones at a building inside the Beit Romano settlement on Thursday during clashes in the West Bank city of al-Khalil.

But the parents of the arrested children complain that "the children were playing football in front of their house when suddenly the soldiers came and arrested them".'

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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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