A four-month prison sentence was handed down on Tuesday by an Israeli military court to a 13-year-old Palestinian child whose family was also ordered to pay a financial penalty.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) the military court in Ofer sentenced Bahauddin Shakarneh a child from Nahalin town in Bethlehem to four months in jail and fined him 10000 shekels.
PPS lawyer Mohamed Shahin said that the Israeli prosecution office had been stalling the submission of an amended indictment against Shakarneh since his detention two months ago in order to fabricate other charges and wait for him to become over 14 years old to extract a more severe court ruling against him.
He pointed out that the military law which is used by Israeli courts against Palestinian children under age 14 specified a maximum of six months in prison for them but the jail penalty would be more than that if the kid was older.
