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The War on innocence: Palestinian children in Israeli military court
Israel can no longer hide the the fact that since the turn of the century it has arrested and interrogated 12,000 Palestinian children, writes RAMZY BAROUD
A Palestinian man prepares to throw a stone at Israeli soldiers

ON JULY 29, four-year-old Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan was reportedly summoned for interrogation by the Israeli police in occupied Jerusalem. 

The news, originally reported by the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), was later denied by the Israeli police, likely to lessen the impact of the PR disaster that followed.

The Israelis are not denying the story in its entirety, but are rather arguing that it was not the boy, Muhammad, who was summoned, but his father, Rabi’, who was called into the Israeli police station in Salah Eddin Street in Jerusalem to be questioned regarding his son’s actions. 

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