Last update - 00:00 13/03/2008
Police: Media reports on rock-throwing only motivates youth more
By Jack Khoury and Eli Ashkenazi, Haaretz Correspondents
The recent media reports on Arab children and teens throwing rocks at major roads in the Galilee is only motivating more youths to hurl stones, a top police offer in the north said Thursday.
On Wednesday there were two more cases of stones being hurled at cars, this time in Upper Nazareth and Acre.
The Acre police held three 14-year-olds from Acre for questioning in suspicion hat they threw stones at a bus in Acre. The youths managed to crack the front windshield, no injuries were reported.
Witnesses who spotted the youths called the police who caught the teens after a short chase. The three admitted they were the ones who hurled the rocks on the way to playing soccer.
The parents of the three teens were invited to the police stations and after questioning the boys were released.
In Upper Nazareth, some rocks were hurled at a bus as well. Police were called to the scene but did not catch the perpetrators.
In the last few months there has been a sharp rise in rock-throwing incidents.