Israel places Palestinian girl, 12, under house arrest

12-year-old Palestinian girl Tuqa Ghazzawi. [Photo by Palestinian Information Centre]

After 4-day detention, Israeli court places Palestinian child under one-month house arrest.

An Israeli court today placed a 12-year-old Palestinian girl from occupied Jerusalem under house arrest for one month and fined her 3,000 shekels (about $800), the Palestinian Information Centre said.

Tuqa Ghazzawi was detained and held in custody for four days after occupation forces found slogans supporting the resistance written on her school notebooks. They also claimed she placed a paper bearing “inciteful statements” on a police vehicle.

Tuqa Ghazzawi’s school book which Israeli occupation forces claim had slogans of support for the Palestinian resistance. [Photo by Palestinian Information Centre]

Tuqa, who is from Al-Thawri neighbourhood in Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, was taken away on 6 March while on her way home from school, where she is in the seventh grade.

She was brought before the court on Friday morning, and her detention was extended until today.

The occupation police said in a statement that they arrested the child after stopping her in the Old City of Occupied Jerusalem, and while searching her bag, they found “slogans supporting Hamas.”

The child had placed a paper on a police vehicle that read “We will win or die” and “Victory is from God and liberation is near”, the police added.

Tuqa’s father, Khalil Ghazzawi, was also detained and interrogated for several hours, but he was later released.

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