Palestinian boy freed from IDF jail without paying bail

"Lawyers who had been contacted by the boy's family failed to appear at the hearing. Military law stipulates that only after an indictment is filed can minors be brought before an IDF court for juveniles." Settler youth also need to be bought before a judicial hearing.

Haredi throw rocks at the cops all the time in their anti-securalist protests. I don't see you calling for stern measures against them. I've also never heard of one of them being arrested, just dispersed. Ever post on here calling for stern measures against them? No? Didn't think so. You fail.

It should absolutely work both ways. Israeli kids who throw stones should receive the saem punishment as the Palestinian kids. This is all the parents fault and they should pay a price as well!

What is the problem? For a moment? imagine a child from the states protesting the presence of law and order in the neighborhood because he doesn?t want the police interfering with his ?daily activities.? If that boy is caught throwing a stone to a police in the states: first arrested with handcuff, second, the child will be presented to a judge and maybe released with a fine or under the supervision of the parent and third, is a misdemeanor offense punishable with JAIL or probation- in some cases both. The big deal is because he is a Palestinian little boy. Do you teach your kids to disrespect authority? Come on, think people!

No child should be interogated without a parent and/or lawyer present under any circumstances. To do so is immoral and unethical regardless of the suituation. Pleased to hear this young lad was released and so he should.

"Have we gone completely mad or what?" What kind of treatment do you expect from Israelis who are without compassion and consider Palestinians no better than animals. Gods chosen people - right?

The fact that the boy was released without having to pay the bail was very generous and an example of love. However, the "shut up" stuff when the young boy asked to use the bathroom is the type of behavior that teaches these young impressionable Arabs that Jews are mean and in his mind it would only add justification to what he did. It's important to be more righteous, and you can only do so by being less wicked. True, the child threw the stone, but Jews should show themselves to be better than that. Love your neighbor as you love yourself, even your enemies are your neighbors, so love your enemies too. Prove the difference between Judaism/Christianity and Islam. Judaism and Christianity are supposed to be allies.

Seems you have been hit more than a few times. Do hope you recover sometime soon.

Take a look and phone the IDF, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-bySD9nCYM plenty more videos of Israeli kids throwing stones at Palestinians, not even bothering to hide their faces, should make it really easy to catch them and throw them in jail for NINE days. Throwing stones is DEADLY right? You want JUSTICE right? be sure to watch the one with the woman carrying a baby....

Makes financial sense to release him.

The kid was never charged or convicted, but was jailed in an adult facility for over two weeks and subjected to enhanced interrogation for all anybody knows. Peter SM and several others are convinced of his guilt even if the prosecutor hasn't charged him. Would Peter SM allow him a trial or just jail him for life? How about if settler youth got treated that way Peter? at age 12 and 13? Maybe a little water-boarding thrown in?

not very smart throwing rocks at armored vehicles if they know when they can caught they will learn their lives lessons,but kids are kids and they imitate other kids and may be this is a way to show their anger.

everybody who thinks that boy should not be detained and than released- do you have experience when your head is hit by the rock? blood is everywhere- your hear become cemented with it, face, neck, etc. Not to mention headache. Try it, then talk.

"Suspected" of throwing stones? - Is that really enough to be locked up for 9 days?

then complain when they get caught trying to kill or injure somebody.? Men of honor protect their women and children not set them up.

This 11 year old child will remember the rough treatment and humiliation of not being allowed to go to the bathroom by the IDF for the rest of his life. And he clearly did not like the IDF to start with and now he has personal experience to fuel his prejudice against Israelis. If this were done to an Israeli child by Israeli police or IDF it would be seen as unacceptable behaviour on the part of rogue police or soldiers not following acceptable practice. However, this rough treatment and humiliation done to an Arab child by the IDF is a diplomatic disaster that is being broadcast around the world.

I ask again. How many teenage settlers have been jailed for throwing stones? How many times do I have to ask before my tb appears here?

It's disgusting that children are brought before military courts in the first place. Israelis should hang their heads in shame at how they abuse Palestinian children through these courts and the way these children are treated in detention.

kah kah palestine kid use stone had been arrest kah kah and then idf use bullet to the palestinian what are you said "self-defense" ? kah kah please don't cheat ...

dull as ditch-water

That lawyer needs to get some rocks bounced off of their head. Big rocks, big enough to give a very serious head injury like migraine headaches for the rest of your life, excruciating pain which causes you to lay on your belly grabbing your head with both hands tightly for hours at a time. Thats just one type of head injury. So don't ignore the victums here.

13 years old playing with balloons? mistake. As a Palestinian lawyer you could have made a much bigger statement by saying that the Israel guards ripped his pacifier out of his mouth. Then the entire world would destroy Israel.

Umm...gee art. Brilliant analysis. Ok. How should I point out the nonsense in your post? Oh, I know, start with your idiotic claims: 1) Rock throwing is serious in many countries. Alas, the territories are not countries. Therefore, military law is in effect. Your analogy in quite literally absent of meaning. 2) Rock throwing is a serious offence in other countries. Ok, lets pretend point one doesn't exist. Well, it is very serious in... umm... 'other countries'. But, the story is about a 13 year old! You want to make an analogy with 'other countries', guess what, most 'other countries' don't have military jurisdiction and usually have three types of offenders: adults, minors, those to young to be tried. In 'other countries' this kid would be too young to be tried. 3). Jordan? Egypt? Really? Is that your yardstick of governance. You're a douche.

"military law prohibits the detention of minors under the age of 12" This must be a typo, you probably mean 18? "Unlike civil law, Israeli military law allows authorities to interrogate Palestinian minors at unreasonable hours, such as at night, and without a parent present. " 13 years old?????? This could be called torture. Terms like "attorney". "court" and "judge", seem strange in the light of the above. Where there is no law or these kind of laws those terms should not be used. People might get confused.

What is scary, is not what is told what IDF does which is kinda expected, but that the haaretz journalists insist on calling this child a boy, instead of the correct term "child". Only the activists called this boy child twice in the whole article, which means they saw this boy as a child.

People in the moral world tend to say innocent till proven guilty to any one let alone to 11 and 13 year old children who were under "suspicion of throwing stones at soldiers" and we all know how the IDf loves to tell the truth especially with their internal investigations. Israel was a state created by terror and that is how it survives by terrorising people. This reign of terror is coming to an end soon and the world will be a better place.

that slit the army jeep tires when the army went to enforece the "freeze" be treated the same way? Somehow, the army/police can't seem to catch those Jewish boys. I guess Jewish boys must be special and shouldn't mistreated.

widscreen or just hit you on the head with a rock as you walk by. Do let us know how harmless it is?

will think twice next time before picking up a rock... The IDF is doing its job and I'm sure the story was blown about of proportion.

the idiots talking back are discussing semantics ! you wonder why some grow up to hate .

Comparing a child to a captured soldier truly is sick. People of your kind are much more abhorrent then any arab. As for the crime it is criminal what these immoral swine did. Were it but your child receiving such treatment.

Post 4: so rock throwing is serious... well, the grown adult Gilad Shalit's rifle and grenades weren't exactly for doing nice things. How can you compare two children who may or may not have thrown stones at their oppressors to a fully-armed soldier captured by the enemy? Whatever the rights and wrongs of Shalit's case, military law applied to kids surely suggest Israel has a lot of issues to address. And comparing to dodgy regimes? Well, you can do that but then don't go on and on about being an amazing democratic beacon of justice (unless you're Arab, obviously...).

"In most of the rest of the world there is no bail. Is there bail in Jordan Egypt iran saudi arabia???" So Israeli law is no different than it is in Jordan, Egypt, Iran, and Saudi Arabia? Excellent. I'm glad you agree.

I was once as a jew held by the airport police for three hours, just because I reacted on some impolite douanier. If you asked something, they told me the same. I am sometimes very much ashamed of Israel. The young boy should have neem brought home!

when Gilad Schalit is freed on bail by hamas I will be more sensitive. Rock throwing is serious. Rocks have killed and crippled. In most countries it is handled as a serious crime and in the US if you can not meet bail and are a risk you stay in jail. In most of the rest of the world there is no bail. Is there bail in Jordan Egypt iran saudi arabia???

or put another way, If you're gonna piss yourself when you get caught then stick to wearing the mock suicide belts for show

Under similar circumstances - like When a haredi boy throws rocks at cops - does he go to jail for nine days? I seriously doubt it.

It's not a surprise at all to hear a story like this. It's not even surprising to hear the israeli-sympathizers say the child deserved it because he threw stones. He threw stones(if he did at all because I'd defer to the judgment of the oppressed than the oppressor) at the IOF-israeli occupying force, and as long as israelis continue to deny Palestinians their rights and continue the occupation there will always be rock throwers, and scaring the child will only hardened the child as he grows up in oppression. Sad but very true. Israel, it's time to give up the oppression and realize the Palestinians are humans and they have as much right to land as anyone else does.

This is a blight on Israel's reputation unlike any other. Harrasing and imprisoning minors? When has IDF - the 'most moral Army in the World' - sunk so low as to detain minors. No army, no matter how cruel, does that. Some remnant of old chivalry remains and it is unwritten rule that children, women, old and infirm are spared in any conflict or occupation. Not so in the case of the apparently not so moral IDF. This kind of action hurts Israel more then any enemy of the State ever could. Despicable acts like this can't be justified in any way possible.

Wow very brave army 11 and 13 years old omg and this is done by the only democracy in the area. SHAME ON YOU IDF

There should be facilities for children. God knows what happens to them in a prison with adults. Have we gone completely mad or what?

Ma'an News 7 March 2010 states the child, Al-Hasan Al-Muhtaseb, was 12 years old, his younger brother, Al-Amir, 9 years old.

Seems a little harsh treatment.  Someone might want to mention to IDF authorities that especially dealing with youngsters, you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.  Imagine what may have been achieved if they instead gave him a small lecture, bought him an ice cream cone and some new clothes, took a few days to show him the wonderful opportunies the Israeli chdren g have, the lunar parks, the zoos, fun places at the mall, the kibbutzim.  This kid would have returned to his ARAB friends as an Israeli ambassador! By the way, the IDF should also remind the kid that it is not nice to throw stones. 

by the very persons that I was throwing stones at. Actually, I remember that as a child I threw stones at some young girls and was caught by the police. JJust riding in the police car was harrowing. It must be much more frightening to be in this child's position but he did bring this on himself. I'm glad that he is being released but I don't think that his imprisonment is inappropriate. What is inappropriate, IF TRUE, is not letting this child use the washroom! That should be investigated and acted on if true.