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Israel detains 2 children in East Jerusalem raids

October 26, 2016 at 2:51 pm

Two Palestinian children were interrogated by Israeli police in occupied East Jerusalem yesterday and a teenager was detained.

Sources told Ma’an that Israeli forces summoned Palestinian 12-year-old twins Muhammad and Sair Abu Khdeir after raiding their home in Shuafat.

Their father, Izzat, said that Israeli forces raided his home in an attempt to detain his children who were at school at the time. The soldiers handed the family a summons for the twins and, according to the family, called them minutes later and threatened to detain the children if they failed to come to the interrogation.

Abu Khdeir added that the children were interrogated for several hours, and then released on bail upon the condition that they report to the Israeli police station on Sunday.

In the village of Al-Issawiya in East Jerusalem, a member of the local follow-up committee told Ma’an that Israeli forces detained a Palestinian teenager and transported him to an Israeli interrogation centre amid clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians during a raid on the village.

He added that Israeli forces raid Al-Issawiya on a daily basis, provoking residents of the village, while searching for Palestinian youths and raiding stores.

According to Ma’an documentation, some 118 Palestinians were detained under various circumstances, predominantly during overnight raids, in the first 10 days of October alone.