Lebanon Daily News · Lebanon, Pennsylvania · 24 February 2016
CP-2016-001
Middle East
Most of those detained, some as young as 11, are denied bail
Asma’ Jawabreh and Jacob Wirtschafter, special for USA Today
Transcribed from the clipping
“HEBRON, West Bank—Amer Salah was sleeping last May when Israeli forces entered the 14-year-old’s bedroom in the middle of the night. He said he was arrested for throwing stones at vehicles of neighboring Jewish settlers, which he denied, and was jailed with nine other kids in a cell barely 6-feet by 6-feet without fresh air or ample light. ‘We were not even allowed to see the sun,’ he said… Currently, Israel is holding 420 Palestinians under the age of 18 for alleged attacks in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, according to Israeli Prison Service statistics… The youngest is 11-year-old Ali Alqam, who is charged with wounding a security guard in an October knife attack at a Jerusalem light rail station… Figures released by the Israeli court system after a Freedom of Information request by Military Court Watch show that bail is denied to 70 percent of Palestinian youths who are detained.”
Photograph caption
“A Palestinian youth throws stones toward Israeli military vehicles near the West Bank town of Jenin on Feb. 6.” (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/Getty Images)
Context added by this archive
A photograph: one man throwing a stone at an armoured vehicle, a soldier walking toward him with a rifle raised.
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"Middle East," Lebanon Daily News, 24 February 2016. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2016-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2016-001
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