JERUSALEM
Israeli army detained on Thursday a five year old Palestinian boy in the West Bank.
In a video footage on the website of the Israeli non-governmental organization B'Tselem, which documents human rights violations in the occupied territories, six Israeli soldiers detained the five years old Palestinian boy Wadi Maswadeh, for throwing stones at them on a street in Hebron in the West Bank.
B'Tselem said the soldiers took the boy home and took him and his father handcuffed and blindfolded away. The video shows how Wadi was crying and confused when he was put into the Israeli army truck.
B'Tselem sent a letter to the military judicial authorities of the region saying "The footage clearly shows that this was not a mistake made by an individual soldier, but rather a conduct that, to our alarm, was considered reasonable by all the military personnel involved, including senior officers. It is particularly troubling that none of them apparently thought any part of the incident was problematic: not the fact that they scared a five-year-old boy out of his wits, nor threatening him and his parents to "hand him over" to the Palestinian Police, nor threatening to arrest the father on no legal grounds, nor handcuffing and blindfolding the father in front of his son."
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories was established in February 1989 by a group of prominent academics, attorneys, journalists, and Knesset members.
