The Israeli police are ramping up arrests and attacks against Palestinian children. Targeting of children is nothing new in West Bank villages like Nabi Saleh and Bil’in. This afternoon, Israeli police raided the house of 8 year-old Ali Siyam in the Occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.
Police have been raiding house in Silwan in a bid to quell stone throwing by Palestinians against Israeli military and police. During today’s operation to take Ali Siyam, Israeli polices officers assaulted Siyam’s aunt and father, the only adults present in the house. Siyam’s aunt was shot in the leg with a rubber coated steel bullet as she attempted to protect the child. Locals say that his father was beaten and maced with pepper spray as police took the boy. Both were transferred to Hadassa Har Hatzofim hospital for treatment.
Siyam was taken to Jerusalem’s Russian Compound police station for questioning regarding alleged stone throwing. His lawyer, Israeli Adv. Lea Tsemel, was present at the compound when he arrived at the station. However, Israeli police did not give Tsamel access to the minor, refusing to allow her to be present during the questioning. Tsemel disobeyed the police and attempted to enter the interrogation area. According to witnesses, Tsemel herself was detained in protest. The child was released from custody at 20:00 local time after hours of questions.
Siyam’s arrest comes days after Israeli soldiers broke the arm of a 9-year-old Palestinian child in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. Soldiers, in violation of Israeli army rules of conduct, fired a tear gas canister directly at the child from a range of ten meters. Another 14 year old child was injured from a tear gas canister before the demonstration was over.
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May 29, 2011
11:43 am
[...] פשטה על בית בסילואן ועצרה ילד פלסטיני בן שמונה בשם עלי סיאם. [...]
May 29, 2011
11:43 am
Shame on Israel. Shame on the USA. Shame on any people who harm children in the name of greed and hatred.
May 29, 2011
12:46 pm
When will Israel start to arrests the guys who violently arrest an eight year old? Do soldiers never refuse to follow orders?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOGHTN8USqw&feature=player_embedded
May 29, 2011
1:14 pm
It is an absolute disgrace to be an Israeli these days. Kind of like being South African in the 80′s or German in the 30′s. Sorry, but that’s how I feel about this.
May 29, 2011
2:34 pm
Haaretz has the facts slightly different (though not making things better):
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/police-detain-7-year-old-palestinian-boy-and-accost-relatives-family-members-say-1.364828?localLinksEnabled=false
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May 29, 2011
3:09 pm
The brats should stop throwing rocks and be grateful for the opportunity to live in Israel.
May 29, 2011
3:25 pm
so who’s telling the truth: JD or Haaretz? Both have so many details to prove their story is real, yet they unfortunately contradict each other… is this the meaning of pluralism and liberalism?
May 29, 2011
7:22 pm
children what?
forget the age, what is the gender?
odds are it is an angry, homicidal teenager. typical.
just because you are under 18 does not somehow give you the right to commit assault.
i think it is poor journalism to flash buzzwords like “boy” and “children” as if children are being deliberately targeted.
it is the palestinians who deliberately target children. see fogel murders.
May 29, 2011
10:34 pm
“odds are it is an angry, homicidal teenager. typical.”
Odds are you do not know what a ‘teenager’ is. A little hint: Listen closely to the end (and only) syllable of the word ‘eight’, read aloud.
May 29, 2011
11:20 pm
and we’ve seen eight year old palestinians recite mein kampf on hamas television.
or have you forgotten about the child suicide bombings?
i find it hard to believe israel would bother to arrest and 8 year old boy simply because he is 8 years old.
and who says he is 8? really? the palestinians are serial liars.
jenin jenin anyone. nothing beats a juicy story though!
May 30, 2011
12:04 am
“and who says he is 8?”
The Israeli police. Anything else to distract from the sheer idiocy of your ‘teenager’ comment?
May 30, 2011
3:15 am
Any people capable of bombing densely packed Gaza with the most modern weapons in the world, including white phosphorus and deliberately targeting schools, UNWRA food and medical supplies warehouse (which was also sheltering terrified civilians), homes, mosques, the electrical generating station and sewage treatment plants is certainly capable of detaining an 8 yr old boy.
Switch on your crap detectors!
May 30, 2011
3:27 am
And here you are wrong, Koshihiro!
The police version is that he is 7.
Police in Jerusalem does not lie, perhaps, but the police statements were neither accurate nor consistent.
They told the lawyer that they do not know where the child is. Haaretz: ” Finally, the boy was found by his mother waiting in a Israel Border Police vehicle near Silwan. He arrived at a police station after being held up in the police car for two hours, where he was investigated with his mother present on suspicion he had hurled stones. He was eventually released about four-and-a-half hours after his arrest.”
This may enter annals of lesser abuse. Another statement: “A minor of about eight ran to his house, with officers taking both him and his mother to questioning at the minorities’ unit. The boy was released at the end of his investigation and was put in the care of social services,” the police said.
“Minoritiess unit” in a vehicle?
Anyway, the tyke got it easy, because Jewish State indeed reserves more special abuse for teens. This what Amira Hass writes about a boy of 15 and half who had an encounter with police in Jerusalem:
…the medical report: a scalp hematoma, a linear skull fracture, subcutaneous swelling and hematomas on his face and chest, multiple scratches on his back, multiple signs of blows on his limbs and a tear in his liver.
The police response to Haaretz evaded the medical findings and the following facts presented to them: The police dragged the unconscious boy on the road after he was beaten on his head. He was loaded onto a Jeep, was unloaded from it at a gas station and there, so that he would regain consciousness, he was sprayed with water and air from the tire pump. He was beaten repeatedly, he spit blood and he fainted again. He still had deep handcuff marks on his wrists 10 days after the cuffs were removed.
May 30, 2011
3:40 am
C’est tout à votre honneur et à celui d’Israël d’ouvrir les yeux et d’oublier votre mauvaise foi. L’histoire vous jugera .
Avec mon profond respect aux amis israeliens qui, sous les gaz lacrymogènes, les pistolets paralysants et les violence de la police et de l’armée israéliennes continuentà dénoncer l’occupation et les methodes utilisées et qui sont indignes d’une démocratie.
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May 30, 2011
3:56 am
KOSHIRO , ABBAN AZIZ , It would be all with your honor and that of Israel, to open the eyes and to insincerely stop being . The history judge .
With my deeper respect to my israeli friends who under of the teargas grenads, the paralysing guns and the violence of the police and the israeli army continue to denounce the occupation and the methodes unworthy of a democraty.
May 30, 2011
4:12 am
Le peuple palestinien (sans parler des Israéliens) attend toujours, 63 ans après les événements, des excuses des gouvernements arabes qui ont créé leur tragédie.
Pensez-vous que des gouvernements démocratiques dans ces pays auront le courage de publier cette lettre d’excuses?
May 30, 2011
5:19 am
Max, even in French that sounds lame and is of topic. The issue at hand is the (violent) arrest of very young children.
May 30, 2011
2:23 pm
David, have fun …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBIcdoOKB9c&feature=player_embedded#at=66
http://wn.com/Settler_woman_stones_Palestinians
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The major difference, nobody got arrested!
May 30, 2011
8:02 pm
@DirectRob
Yes, you are right. There is a difference in the two stories.
According to Haaretz, she was not hit by a “rubber bullet” but an “anti-demonstration projectile”.
Don’t you love harm reduction?
May 31, 2011
3:01 am
Some comments here make think ….do they have any kind of humanity ? is it possible to live with these creatures ? I am sure if the IDF arrested a 3 month old infant they would defend it , sick Zionists
June 4, 2011
2:49 am
And remember the Palestinians who stabbed to death kids while they slept recently
Not to mention the thousands butchered by their own regimes
Islam religion of peace……hahahaahahahah