Holy Land: Israeli military arrests two boys, aged 11 and 13

Israeli border police detained and arrested an eleven-year-old Palestinian boy in the Qitoun area of H2 (under full Israeli military control) during the morning school patrol last Sunday, Christian Peacemaker Teams report.

The Israeli soldier grabbed the young boy by wrapping his hand in the collar of his shirt and twisting his clothing tightly around the neck, despite the fact that the young Palestinian showed no signs of resisting.

After several minutes of Palestinian adults pleading with the soldier to release his grip, the soldier finally responded and escorted him to the police station next to the Ibrahimi Mosque without notifying his parents.

The boy remained at the police station for over an hour and a half, after which the soldier informed one of the schoolteachers that police would hand him over to the Palestinian Authority at Check Point 56 at Bab iZaweyya, in the H1 section of Hebron. Once the child was in the military jeep by himself, instead of taking him to Checkpoint 56, the Israeli soldiers transported him to the other side of Hebron to the police station at the Israeli settlement* of Kiryat Arba.

On the morning of 29 October 2014, Israeli forces made an incursion into the Motanabi School in Hebron, near Kiryat Arba. 
The Israeli military detained two young Palestinians and arrested one—Bara Araf Jebal, thirteen years old, for allegedly throwing rocks from the school playground at an iron shelled military outpost some 400 yards from the school.

During the arrest, the Israeli military transported Bara Araf Jebal in the armored vehicle without notifying his parents, and then dropped him off one km from his school. According to reports, soldiers physically abused and coerced him while he was in their custody.

The Motanabi School has been a recent area of unrest, specifically during the times of day when the school starts and ends. 
“We have phone calls now when these incidents occur of parents calling us and telling us their children will not be going to school today,” said Hisham Qawasmeh, the principal of the school. “Last year it wasn’t as bad, but now we have soldiers here all the time. They say they saw kids throwing stones, but our kids can’t throw stones from here to where they are at; it’s too far.”

See CPT’s report on child arrests and detentions: Occupied Childhoods.
http://cptpalestine.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/occupied-childhoods-impact-of-the-actions-of-israeli-soldiers-on-palestinian-children-in-h2-during-february-march-and-april-20131.pdf