Israeli Soldiers Raid Homes, Question Kids as Young as 9
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Masked and armed Israeli soldiers have been recorded forcefully entering Palestinian homes and waking up, photographing and questioning children as young as nine.
The videos highlight Israeli efforts to track down young Palestinian rock throwers in the occupied West Bank, according to an Israeli rights group.
"We are getting reports of nightly searches by soldiers demanding that Palestinian kids be woken up," Sarit Michaeli, an activist working for B'Tselem human rights group, told NBC News. "The Palestinians in the West Bank live under Israeli military law so currently the army doesn't need a warrant or permit to enter Palestinian homes."
"Why are you coming in the middle of the night?" an unidentified Palestinian father says to the soldiers.
"Why are you throwing at us rocks all the time," the soldier says.
"We didn't throw rocks," the father answers.
"Wake up everyone and bring them to the living room," the soldier responds.
The kids are woken one by one. Their father tries to calm them down while soldiers point their automatic rifles at them.
Then soldiers start questioning one of the children, a nine-year-old.
"Are you throwing rocks?" he asks.
The scared-looking boy looks up at the soldier and shakes his head.
"No," he says.
"Are you sure?" demands the soldier.
"Yes," the boy replies.
The IDF faces constant clashes in the West Bank, which Israel invaded in 1967 and considers part of its territory but that Palestinians consider part of a future state.
The soldiers who stormed Sameeh Daana's home at around 1:30 a.m. on February 24 were all wearing black masks, the 45-year-old said.
"They went into one room where nine-year-old Saddam was sleeping," he said. "I kept asking them to let me wake him up while they were outside the room because he will be terrified if they woke him."
Israel is not a terrorist state. In fact, they are the ones most specialized in handling matters involving Muslim terrorists. You people are so clueless how it's like to live in a country with Muslim terrorists. I'd be happy if my country takes notes from them.
Israel is not a terrorist state. In fact, they are the ones most specialized in handling matters involving Muslim terrorists. You people are so clueless how it's like to live in a country with Muslim terrorists. I'd be happy if my country takes notes from them.
It's so much more problematic than simply calling a state terrorist. But you can never justify questioning 9 years old children let alone waking them up from their sleep. If you had waken up a privileged 9 years old kid from the West hell would break loose.
