[ 13/10/2010 - 03:25 PM ] Lawyer Jawad Buloos, the head of the Palestinian prisoners' association's legal unit, said that the case started on 27/9 when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested Sayel Abu Quaider, 15, near his school in Al-Khalil after alleging he was throwing stones at the soldiers.
The boy denied the charge but a soldier testified that the boy threw one stone and based on this testimony he was arrested, Buloos added.
When Quaider was brought to court his face was bruised, the lawyer noted, adding that the soldier who arrested him dashed his face into a nearby wall.
An indictment was leveled against the boy after which the military prosecution demanded his detention until finalization of legal procedures against him but the judge at the preliminary military court ordered his release on 3/10 due to his young age and because he was injured during his arrest.
Rights center: Threats to arrest children in Silwan a boost on daily attacksOCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- With more than 600 arrests of minors this year in occupied Jerusalem, half of them in the Silwan district, Israeli threats of more child arrests will not change the reality on the ground, the Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights said.
The center described threats by Israel’s Minister of Internal Security to ramp up arrests on children who throw stones at settlers in Jerusalem’s Silwan district as an escalation of daily attacks already launched by Israeli settlers, policemen, and security forces against the Arab neighborhood.
In similar violations against children, settlement chief David Bari deliberately hit two children last week in Silwan with his car as media recorded the incident. Samer Sarhan was killed a few weeks back in cold blood by a security guard in a nearby neighborhood. The perpetrators in both of the crimes were released after police justified the acts as self-defense.
“Minister Aharonovich should have looked into the reasons why Silwan children demonstrate and protest and also looked into radical solutions to stop police and settler assaults against these children and their families instead of making threats to take strict measures against stone throwers and their families,” the JCSER said in its statement.
“The real provocation that stirs the emotions of citizens in Silwan is the presence of colonial settlement activity that violates the rights and property of Palestinian citizens and places restrictions on their freedom of movement,” the rights group added.
[ 13/10/2010 - 10:50 AM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- A 17-year-old Palestinian boy was wounded on Wednesday when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired at him in northern Beit Hanun, north of the Gaza Strip, while collecting gravel.
Spokesman for the military services Adham Abu Salmiya told the PIC that the boy was hit with a bullet in his foot, describing his injury as "slight".
IOF troops systematically target Palestinians collecting gravel to terrorize them away from those border areas.
Meanwhile, Israeli F-16 warplanes staged mock raids over the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning, flying at low and high altitudes, breaking the sound barrier and spreading concern among inhabitants that they might turn into real raids.
In the West Bank, IOF troops rounded up 13 Palestinian citizens during incursions in various West Bank districts at dawn Wednesday.
The Israeli radio said that the citizens were apprehended during routine army raids, adding that the citizens are "wanted" for interrogation.
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