The Israeli occupation police released late Thursday evening four Palestinian children from Occupied Jerusalem on condition of house confinement.
Lawyer Saleh Mheissen from the Wadi Hilweh Information Center said the four Palestinian children were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces from Silwan town three among whom while on their way back home from school.
They were identified as 13-year-old Amer Waleed Abdul Razzaq and Mahdi Moussa Qara’ine along with Muadh Jamal Zaytoune 14. The captives were held in custody and subjected to intensive questioning on claims of stone-hurling. They were released hours later on conditions of a five-day house confinement and an unpaid bail of up to 5000 shekels.
The fourth child 13-year-old Jamal Mohamed Qara’ine endured hours of exhaustive interrogation on the same allegation and was released on conditions of a seven-day house arrest a bail of 1000 shekels and a third-party bail.
Jamal said he was arrested on his way out of a barbershop in Silwan and was transferred to an Israeli police station in Salah al-Din Street where he had been subjected to heavy beating and verbal abuse in order to force confession.
