AL-KHALIL: Israeli soldiers arrest 15-year-old boy.

Facebook
Twitter
Email
WhatsApp
Print

CPTnet

14 February 2014

AL-KHALIL: Israeli soldiers arrest 15-year-old boy.

At about 2 in the afternoon on  February 14 Israeli soldiers boy arrested feb 14arrested a 15-year-old boy on New Shalalah street during clashes in Hebron .  A group of 8  soldiers handcuffed him in the street and walked him into the military base at the entrance to the old city.  The soldiers told internationals that they were arresting the boy because he was holding stones.

According to a report by the Ministry of Prisoner’s Affairs in Ramallah, Israeli forces arrested 900 children during the past year.  180 children under the age of 18 are currently detained in Israeli jails and in Ofer, Megiddo and Sharon prisons.

Children in Israeli detention are often tried in adult military courts and incarcerated in adult prison populations, in clear violation of international law.

Categories

Read More Stories

CPT members stand on stage, wearing blue vests, preparing to speak during the event for 25 November, the Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women, in Barrancabermeja, Colombia.

From Kurdistan to Colombia, women resist

Resistance knows no borders, as Kurdish CPT member Runak Radha joins the struggles of CPT Colombia’s women’s movements for the International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women on 25 November

Skip to content