OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up at dawn Monday four Palestinians in various West Bank areas as a Palestinian society revealed that the IOF detained 300 Jerusalemite children recently.
Hebrew daily Yediot Ahronot quoted military sources as saying that the Palestinian citizens were “wanted” for questioning.
Local sources said that the arrests took place in the districts of Nablus and Al-Khalil.
Meanwhile the Palestinian citizens rights society said that the Israeli occupation detained 300 children in Silwan suburb south of the Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
It said in a statement on Saturday that the campaign of arrests was meant to silence the neighborhood residents and force them to accept living side by side with the usurping Zionist settlers.
It noted that the arrests are mostly made at a late hour and target children for allegedly throwing stones at settlers while trying to seize control of Arab homes in Silwan adding that the campaign targets scaring those children and raising concern and anxiety of their relatives.
The society said that almost all children in Silwan in the age category 10 to 14 were detained over suspicion of throwing stones at the settlers.
The Israeli occupation usually releases those children two days after their detention on bail the society said noting that the international law prohibits detaining children less than 12 years old while older children should be only detained in daylight in the company of either of their parents.
