SNIPPITS AND SNAPPITS: ISRAELI FORCES ATTEMPT TO ARREST 2-YEAR-OLD PALESTINIAN CHILD

Thursday, 5 April, 2012

ISRAELI FORCES ATTEMPT TO ARREST 2-YEAR-OLD PALESTINIAN CHILD

Mohammed Ali Dirbus, aged 6, detained and interrogated for four hour!

No one, including the soldiers involved in this ridiculous situation, can possibly believe that such young children as mentioned below, are terrorists. However, the name of the game is power and the installation of it into the deepest corners of the Palestinian mind. The trauma to both parents and child are important factors.

PART ONE:
ISRAELI FORCES ATTEMPT TO ARREST 2-YEAR-OLD PALESTINIAN CHILD

By Linah Alsaafin

Electronic Intifada

April 4, 2012

Mo’men Shtayeh probably owns a John Cena shirt, the WWE wrestler who the Palestinian kids hero worship, their shrill voices echoing in neighborhood streets of Cena’s catchphrase, “You can’t see me!” accompanied with waving a hand in front of their faces.

Mo’men Shtayeh has seen and knows too much. There is a chance ~ nay, a probability ~ that due to witnessing the Israeli army’s brutality and severe oppression in his village of Kufr Qaddoum, Mo’men might have grown up to be a warmongering Islamist (or perversely, a Tea Party-er).

Mo’men Shtayeh represents a threat to the security of the Israeli racist occupying state. Apparently, it is well known that due to his savvy nature, Mo’men has been involved in drawing up specialized blue prints to attack enemy bases.

So it all makes perfect sense that the most moral army in the world, the Israeli Defense Forces, the 4th strongest army, the upholders of the beacon of democracy and godly light, tried to arrest Mo’men on Monday, April 2nd.

The thing is, Mo’men is 2 and a half years old.

Murad Shtayeh, the coordinator of the popular resistance committee in Kufr Qaddoum and the father of little Mo’men, told the Electronic Intifada that heavily armed Israeli soldiers raided his house on Monday at 5:30pm. Two soldiers remained outside, two others went in the house, shouting they were going to arrest Mo’men.

“Mo’men was going inside the house,” Murad said, “when the soldiers suddenly took off from where they had been standing. They came running to the house like they were in a marathon, very fast and urgent, like a bunch of crazies.”

The soldiers claimed that Mo’men had, not a nuclear warhead, or a sub-machine gun, but the most dangerous item in the world ~ a slingshot.

“Of course Mo’men didn’t have a slingshot in his hands!” scoffed Murad. “And even if he did, so what? He’s a kid.” For crying out loud.

The soldiers were adamant that Mo’men hand over his slingshot (which he doesn’t own) because he was using it to aim at the soldiers. What’s more, they wanted Mo’men to hand himself over to them too.

Bashar Shtayeh, Murad’s cousin was also present at the scene. “The soldiers in the house drew their weapons and pointed them at the family,” he said, “threatening them that they would not leave unless Mo’men was handed over to them.”

A loud angry argument persisted for half an hour between Murad, other villagers who had come to see what the commotion was all about, and the soldiers. The soldiers then left, having cemented yet another moral meltdown in the occupation’s history. Not that they had morals in the first place.

But what of the toddler?

Needless to say, Mo’men was terrified by the on goings around him.

“What can I say, of course he’s affected by this,” Murad said. “He was very scared. He’s doing slightly better now.”

Kufr Qaddoum began its weekly popular resistance protests in June 2011, against the encroaching illegal settlement of Qedumim that is built on the village’s land and to open the main village road that leads directly to Nablus.

The Israeli oppression against Kufr Qaddoum doesn’t just happen on Fridays. It occurs on a daily basis.

“Obviously, they thought this stunt- whether carried through or not~ would serve as a punishment for us, but the truth is that it will not deter us from our protests” Murad declared.

“Every day and night we have 5 to 7 soldiers in the village harassing us. Sometimes they come in with their dogs and fetch cars and houses. Yesterday (Tuesday) at 9:30pm the soldiers set up a checkpoint on one of the inner streets of the village.”

Mo’men Shtayeh, your little 2 and a half year old self highlighted the absurdity, the idiocy, the shameful nature of the Israeli occupying army. May the force of John Cena be with you.

PART TWO:

CHILD ARRESTS BY ISRAEL ▶ OVERVIEW

Occupied Palestine

Israel’s mayhem against children is getting beyond every imagination. On Jan 3, three young children were arrested. The youngest was only 6 years old: Mohammed Ali Dirbas who was kidnapped from the street while going to the grocery store. After that Israel detained and interrogated little Mohammed for 4 hours.

The arrest and violations of law regarding interrogation of a 6 year old really are the limit.

At the moment over 160 children already are illegally detained, arbitrary and in violation with literally all International Laws, arrested, kidnapped, interrogated while military orders, higher laws or regulations are being ignored, children are tortured, and neglected – when ill- even to death and traumatized for life while the International community lacks condemnation but above all: actions.

This page will be daily and continuously updated with arrests of children if they occur and we want to ask all to help raise the awareness by sharing (and keep sharing this post), reblog it on your own weblog, website or refer or link to it. Feel free to copy any content necessary.

In 2011 the youngest child arrested was only 5 years old

Below the list of arrests, resource, related information, reports of human rights organisations, legal context or documents will be continuously updated.

CHILDREN ARRESTED AS FROM JAN 1, 2012

	Name of the arrested Child	Age	Location	Date	Source \| En	Source \| Ar	Updates
105	Feb 2012 54 children kidnapped		REPORT (*)	Mar 1, 2012	Source
55	Hamza Yousif Mohammed Awad	17	Beit Ummar	Feb 1, 2012	Source
54	Muayad Jawad Suleiman Bahar	17	Beit Ummar	Feb 1, 2012	Source
53	Jan 2012 53 children kidnapped		REPORT (*)		Source
37	Omar Obeid	16	Issawiya	Jan 26, 2012	Source
36	Name unknown yet, 3 children arrested		Al-Minya	Jan 26, 2012	Source
35	Name unknown yet, 3 children arrested		Al-Minya	Jan 26, 2012	Source
34	Name unknown yet, 3 children arrested		Al-Minya	Jan 26, 2012	Source
33	Name unknown yet, 4 children arrested		Beit Eina	Jan 25, 2012	Source
32	Name unknown yet, 4 children arrested		Beit Eina	Jan 25, 2012	Source
31	Name unknown yet, 4 children arrested		Beit Eina	Jan 25, 2012	Source
30	Name unknown yet, 4 children arrested		Beit Eina	Jan 25, 2012	Source
29	Jaber Annajar	17	Yatta / Al-Khalil	Jan 24, 2012	Source
28	Muaz Annajar	15	Yatta / Al-Khalil	Jan 24, 2012	Source
27	Majds Sharha	16	Silwan	Jan 20, 2012	Source
26	Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Alami	17	Beit Ummar	Jan 20, 2012	Source
25	Jihad Jamal Salam Jundiya,	17	Al-’Arroub Hebron	Jan 19, 2012	Source
24	Yousef Ahmad al Abbasi	17	Silwan	Jan 19, 2012	Source
23	2 children kidnapped		Aiswayia	Jan 19, 2012	Source
21	Anan Tamimi	16	Nabi Saleh	Jan 13, 2012	Source
20	Name not confirmed yet	16	Bethlehem	Jan 12, 2012	Source
19	Mousa Sleibi	17	Beit Ummar	Jan 11, 2012	Source
18	Hussein Sleibi	17	Beit Ummar	Jan 11, 2012	Source
17	awaiting name	16	Bethlehem	Jan 10, 2012	Source
16	awaiting name	17	Al-Khalil	Jan 10, 2012	Source
15	awaiting name	17	Al-Khalil	Jan 10, 2012	Source
14	Ahmed Azem	14	Nablus	Jan 10, 2012	Source
13	Talib Ibrahim Abu Bakir Ya’bad	10	Ya’bad – South Jenin	Jan 08, 2012	Source
12	Laoy Al Razim	14	Jerusalem	Jan 05, 2012	Source
11	Mohammad Omar Abu Salah	13	Jenin	Jan 05, 2012	Source
10	Mousa Abu Baker	17	Jenin	Jan 05, 2012	Source
9	Sa’ad Taysir Abed al Fattah Mansour	15	Al ‘Isawiyya	Jan 04, 2012
8	Mahmmoud Ahmad Othman Radwan	14	Al ‘Isawiyya	Jan 04, 2012	source
7	Mahmmoud Abdallah Ahmad Radwan	15	Al ‘Isawiyya	Jan 04, 2012	source
6	Muhammad Mahmmoud Abdel Qadir	14	Al ‘Isawiyya	Jan 04, 2012	source
5	Awaiting Name Confirmation	12	Silwan	Jan 03, 2012
4	Muath Al A’araj	12	Silwan	Jan 03, 2012
3	Muhammad Ali Moussa Daoud Derbas	6	Al ‘Isawiyya	Jan 03, 2012	source	source	source
2	Awaiting Name Confirmation	16	Azun east of Qalqilia	Jan 02, 2012	source
1	Awaiting Name Confirmation	14	Azun east of Qalqilia	Jan 02, 2012	source

(*) Media nor IOF does not release or reveal all names/ages of detainees. For this reason some resources to individual arrests with names and description of the kidnap/arrest may not be covered by media itself at all. The report includes all known cases by Palestinian Researchers into prisoner affairs.

In a special topic about Israeli violence against children you can get an impression of the violence, abuse, torture and even death to which Palestinian children are exposed due to Israeli violations and disrespect of International Laws and every moral sense possible.

Due to immense increase of the violence, the post only mentions incidents until May 2011, the following confirmed and documented cases can be found Category Children

VIOLENCE DURING INTERROGATION OF CHILDREN

Israel interrogates Palestinian minor ~ Palestine Telegraph ~ Jan 19, 2012

VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN

OBSTRUCTION OF MEDICAL AID KILLS CHILDREN

Children of Palestine are not only threatened by arrests, just a few days ago a 7 month old baby diedbecause Israel obstructed the permit for live saving surgery and the child died. Seven-month-old Adham Baroud died at the Al Rantissi Children’s Hospital’s in Gaza City at around 1am on 26 December. He had been referred to Israel for emergency treatment by his doctors in Gaza on 1 December.

Aside from 173 other children who died due to the same obstruction of medical care. ~ Report

35 babies died, due to obstruction of medical care or access restriction at checkpoints ~ Report

The chance of being born for Palestinians in Israel knows a death ratio of 14/1000 against 3/1000 live births due to racist policies of Israel. Many services to which Israel according to International Law, Art.55 & 56 of the Fourth Geneva convention is obliged are neglected causing shocking health risks for people, children and thus an unacceptable death rate ~ Report

CHILD PRISONERS

Over 160 children are still detained illegally and in violation with law, arbitrary or trailed by military courts. They are not exempted from torture

Palestinian Children Detained Oppressively in Isolation ~ Report by Stephen Lendman ~ Jan 5, 2012

Stone Cold Justice ~ Israel’s Detention & Torture of Children ~ Report

Israel Torture Palestinian Children by Electric-Shocking ~ Report

Abusing Palestinian Children ~ Report

B’Tselem: Jerusalemite children tortured by Israeli interrogators ~ B’Tselem ~ Report

More about Israeli Torture

ATTACKS ON CHILDREN

Aside from daily arrests of children in the West Bank, many children in Gaza encounter targeting by snipers and get shot or wounded, handicapped and in many cases killed. Even while sleeping in their beds in the middle at the night, attacks by arrests are mainly undertaken by night, and aggressive violent attacks like bombings on Gaza also. Children do get killed while asleep while you turn side in your bed being unaware.

Urgent Appeal (UA 4/10) ~ Children of the Gravel

KIDNAPPING & ARRESTS OF CHILDREN:

Especially in Jerusalem many children are kidnapped. By the police, army, settlers and as is showed in a hidden camera captured video you can witness a child abduction of a soccer playing child at broad daylight in Jerusalem by undercover Israeli forces.

7,000 is the estimated number of Palestinian children detained and prosecuted in Israeli military courts since 2000, shows a report by Defence for Children International Palestine (DCIP)

87% ~ Children subjected to some form of physical violence while in custody.
91% ~ Believed to be blindfolded at some point during their detention.
12 % ~ The minimum age of criminal responsibility, as stipulated in the Military Order 1651.
62% ~ The percentage of children arrested between 12am and 5am.

Undercover forces captured on film kidnapping a child in ~ video

Silwan Targeted ~ video

Children in Silwan ~ video

Stolen Children, Stolen Lives ~ Israel’s arrest & abuse of Palestinian Children ~ video

83 Palestinian children arrested in 2011, 15 in the last week alone ~ Mondoweiss

Detaining children is big business for Zionism: 900.000$ cashed in 9 months

REPORTS:

False Confessions by Palestinian Children and adolescents under Coercion ~

Physicians for Human Rights Israel

Coerced False Confessions: The Case of Palestinian Children ~ By Graciela Carmon, M.D. ~

Physicians for Human Rights Israel

Latest Violation Bulletin of Rights of Children ~ Issued Dec 23 2011 by

Defence for Children Palestine

Latest Detention Bulletin of Rights of Children ~ Issued Dec 23 2011 by

Defence for Children Palestine

Human rights paper exposes Israeli violence against detained children ~

Report by Adalah & Al-Mizaan

VIDEOS

KIDNAP OF PALESTINIAN CHILD BY UNDERCOVER ISRAELI FORCES

ILLEGAL CHILD DETENTION

ISRAEL ARRESTS CHILDREN ~ VIDEO ~JAN 25, 2012

Follow for information & Demand Intervention

Follow Defense for Children
Defence for Children Palestine Website

Follow UNICEF
UNICEF Palestine Website

Contact information UNICEF

For News Organizations:

Catherine Weibel
Chief, Communication
UNICEF Jerusalem
Tel: +972-2-5840404
Mobile: +972-54 778 7604
E-mail: cweibel@unicef.org

Monica Awad
Communication Specialist
UNICEF Jerusalem
Tel: +972-2-584-0400 (ext 405)
Mobile: +972-547787605, +972-599-118848
Email: mawad@unicef.org

Sajy Elmughanni
Communication Officer
UNICEF Gaza
Tel: +972-054-7787602
Mobile: +972-059-8921836, +972-059-8921836
Email: selmughanni@unicef.org

Hanan Michael
Communication Assistant
UNICEF Jerusalem
Tel: +972-2-584-0400 (ext 406)
Mobile: +972-547787607
Email: mailto:hmicheal@unicef.org

Deprivation of Basic Needs Cost Lives ~ Also of Children
Healthcare | Electricity | Water | Communication

For all attacks and violation of Law and crimes against → Children

For all attacks on Gaza → Gaza Under Attack

For all attacks all over Palestine check the Category → Attacks

For all attacks committed by (Illegal Colonists) → Settler Violence

For all attacks on Gaza’s Fishermen at sea → Fishing Under Fire

For all attacks on Press to prevent u see Truth → Attack on Press

For all assassinations by Israel → Assassinations

For all kidnap attacks by Israel → Kidnapping & Abductions

For all unlawful incursion attacks by Israel → Incursions

For all massacres by Israel → Massacres & Genocide

PART THREE

DARK DAYS FOR SILWAN’S YOUTH

Wadi Hilweh Information Centre

June 7, 2011

Israel’s continuous arrest campaign of Palestinian youth and children of Silwan has intensified in recent weeks, with no place or activity seemingly safe for minors from Israeli authorities. Arrests have occurred as children return from school, drink coffee on the balcony of their family home or buy vegetables in the street. Many minor arrests in recent days have taken place during quiet periods in Silwan, entirely unprovoked.

The campaign highlights Israeli authorities’ willingness to defy basic standards of conduct and treatment, such as targeting and criminalization of minors. Humiliation and physical assault are reportedly commonplace in interrogation and detention, even for minors.

7 children numbered amongst 8 arrested by Israeli forces in Silwan today. One child arrested, Yahya al-Rishaq, is not even 6 years of age. Despite al-Rishaq’s attempts to persuade soldiers not to take his young son, Israeli forces insisted on his arrest.

Three minors were abducted by undercover units, one aged 17 and the others 15. Bilal Osama Natshe (15), Maher Naim (17) and Ahmed Awad al-Bakri (15) were taken whilst outside their homes in Alabasya district, bereft of any involvement in clashes or confrontation.

Another minor, 15-year old Saleh Shweiki was summoned to interrogation when police called his father at their Bir Ayyub home. Shweiki was detained on arrival on charges of participation in neighborhood clashes.

Shaher Zaidani, meanwhile, was arrested while on his way to work from his home in Al-Bustan district. Zaidani was seized while waiting for the bus, imprisoned and reportedly beaten in custody by Israeli forces.

Mahmoud Mohammed Abu Khater, 14, and another unidentified child were abducted by undercover forces while sitting outside their homes in Athury neighborhood. Khater is due to appear before the Magistrates Court tomorrow morning on fabricated charges.

The targeting of minors has left Silwan families frightened for their children and ever-more cynical of Israeli forces’ largely unfounded allegations against young members of their community.