12-year-old Child to be Prosecuted as an Adult by an Israeli Military Court

The Israeli Authorities decided to file charges against a 12-year-old Palestinian child from the southern West Bank city of Hebron after arresting him and charging him with throwing stones at the Israeli military.

The child was identified as al-Hasan al-Mohtasib, 12. His 7-year-old brother was also detained but was released later on.

Their father, Fadel, said that his sons were in al-Shallalah Street, in the center of Hebron. His 7-year-old son, al-Amir, was released ten hours after his was kidnapped by the army.

He added that local residents told him that soldiers kidnapped his two children and took them to the nearby al-Karaj military camp.'

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Ten US Citizens Charged With Child Kidnapping in Haiti

Ten US citizens arrested in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country after last month's earthquake have been charged with child kidnapping.

The ten people, most of whom are members of an Idaho-based church group, were sent back to jail on Thursday after a closed court hearing in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.'

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