Five-years old boy detained by Israeli forces
Another crime by the Israeli Terrorist Forces*. Not even a five-years old boy can escape the inhumane treatment of these “state terrorists”.
Beating the father in front of his son, snatching the kid form his father’s lap, detaining the child with his his father’s hands tied and eyes blindfolded, then torturing the boy in the detention center by giving him ‘hot water’ to drink, and refusing to let a five-years old boy to use the bathroom…
What threat a five-year old boy could have caused to an ‘army of terrorists’? And the more important question is: What a kind of hate this kid and thousands more will always carry towards the Israelis for the rest of their lives?
Here is the full story based on the father testimony:
In the early afternoon of 17 April, 33-year old Samer Qabha was sitting with his five-year old son, Motaz, in his lap, talking to his neighbour in front of his house in the northern West Bank village of Tura al-Gharbiya. As the men chatted, they noticed an Israeli military Hummer jeep passing several times up and down along the street in front of them. Samer and his neighbour paid little attention to the vehicle - the sight of the Israeli army in town is nothing new. Israeli forces often enter Tura al-Gharbiya and surrounding villages ostensibly to patrol the Separation Wall which snakes along the western edge of Tura al-Gharbiya, cutting the village off from its land and from the 9,000 residents of neighbouring hamlets in the Barta’a Ash Sharqiya enclave.
On around the fifth time of passing, the Hummer stopped and three soldiers got down and started walking towards Samer. Pointing at Motaz, the soldiers asked if the boy was Samer’s son and said he’d been throwing stones at the jeep. As Samer started to protest, pointing out that his son was only five years old, other soldiers appeared from an olive grove beside the house. As they walked up to Samer and Motaz, one soldier told the others standing there “That boy was throwing stones”.
To the horror of Samer and his neighbour, the soldiers announced that they were going to arrest Motaz. Samer implored them to leave his child alone, but one of the soldiers bent down and tried to pull the by now terrified child out of his father’s arms. For almost half an hour, Samer argued with the soldiers that Motaz was only a child and that they couldn’t arrest him. However, when it became clear to him that the soldiers were not going to yield, Samer told them that if they were going to detain his child, they would have to take him too.
The soldier in charge made a call in which, Samer assumes, he sought permission to bring the father along with the son. The soldiers then dragged Motaz from his father, shouting at the boy who started screaming and begging his father to help him. Samer tried to hold onto and protect Motaz, but his efforts only angered the soldiers further. They turned and beat Samer, separating him from Motaz whom they slapped and yelled at. The soldiers bound Samer’s hands and blindfolded him before pushing him into the jeep, shoving Motaz in after him.
Father and son were transferred to the nearby ‘Shakeed’ military base and placed in a downstairs room to await the arrival of an officer. After about half an hour, Motaz, who was shaking with fear, told his father that he wanted a drink. Samer asked a soldier to bring a glass of water, but when it came, almost an hour later, the water was so hot they had to leave it to cool before the boy was able to drink. A while later, Motaz said he needed to go to the bathroom. The soldiers initially refused to let Motaz out of the cell, but after a long and heated argument they finally relented and let Samer, with his hands tied, walk out of the room to the toilet, with Motaz clutching his leg.
Around 8.30pm, an officer came and told Samer that Motaz had been throwing stones at soldiers. Samer demanded that the officer show some proof, so the officer called another soldier over who, indicating at Motaz, promptly told Samer and the officer “This boy throws stones”. The officer made a phone call and told Samer that he would be taken with his son to Salem detention centre north of Jenin, where Samer would be made to pay a fine of NIS 2,000 ($445). Again, Samer protested, arguing that he should not be made to pay and that his son was merely a child. “Israel does not separate between children and adults,” the officer told Samer. “All Palestinians are terrorists!”
The officer left the room and, on returning told Samer that he and Motaz could leave now. He told Samer to tell all the people of his village that they were to stop throwing stones at the Israeli forces as they patrolled the streets. “This is the last time we’ll warn you,” he said.
At around 9.30pm, six and a half hours after the soldiers had first approached them outside the house, Samer and Motaz were released from military custody. They were let out of the gates of Shakeed camp onto an empty road, and told to go home. However, it was not until 10.30pm, after a terrifying hour’s walk along a pitch-black road at risk of attack from Jewish settlers or from being apprehended again by Israeli forces, that Samer and Motaz finally reached the relative safety of their home back in Tura al-Gharbiya.
Based on the testimony of Samer Saleh Qabha (Source: Defence for Children International / PS).
* Israeli Terrorist Forces (ITF). This is how I’ll be calling them from now on. Israeli Occupation Forces is not any more descriptive of their reality, specially that all what they are doing is nothing less than what they claim the Palestinian “terrorists” are doing.
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16 Comments on “Five-years old boy detained by Israeli forces”
I pray to see the day
the day where this child becomes a man,
a man who’ll take his revenge
the ITF keep teaching the world new lessons of terrorism and racism, may Allah take care of this innocent soul and purify his brain from what he had witnessed…
And they call Palestinians terrorists!!!!
And they deny the bombings!!!!!
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I will again assert that this is not an isolated incident, but that these things happen every day in Palestine. Anyone who agrees with the arrest of children, whether they throw stones or not, is a fascist. Israel must be held accountable.
http://www.btselem.org/english/statistics/Minors_in_IDF_Detention.asp
http://www.btselem.org/english/statistics/Minors_in_IPS_Detention.asp
I urge anyone who is wary of the Palestinian side of the story to read about the lives
of Palestinians who have given statements to B’Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories:
http://www.btselem.org/english/Search/search.asp?txtSearch=children&x=0&y=0
Some stories from 2005:
http://www.btselem.org/english/testimonies/20050120_salah_abu_muhsen_shot_to_death_in_tubas_witness_daraghmeh.asp
http://www.btselem.org/english/testimonies/20050417_injury_of_bakar_asi_by_security_forces_live_gunfire.asp
http://www.btselem.org/english/testimonies/20050508_settlers_violence_in_tel_rumeida_al_aisha_family.asp
Ok and Israel deserves to exist beacause? Give me one reason why every israeli should not suffer for this…..after all its their army, the army of a democratic country they pay for this and they support it.I can care less for an israeli kid on a bus…I definatly care more about Moutaz, and I hope one day he will indeed get his revenge.
Marcus and OmAr,
Hate and revenge only help Israel’s strategy in demonising the Palestinians.
He is not just a five years old kid, he is a man of steal and manlier than the entire Arab nation…
I am not suprised. This is just another attempt by the IOF to terrorise the local people to leave their land so that they can occupy it.
At some point, the growing up and “taking revenge” mentality has to stop. This only makes it worse and it never helps to bring peace. As long as you have the mentality of killing and taking revenge… there will be no peace.
I don’t agree w/ the Israeli’s or what they’re doing… but at some point you have to turn your back on them and refuse to play by their rules and not allow them to entice you.
The rock throwing by youngsters is just fueling this stuff… why don’t the ppl talk to their children and teach peace… why continue w/ the revenge stuff… wouldn’t peace be better?
Take the high road and refuse to bow down to them… choose peace over hate.
Oh my God, I cant beleive that this happen
and people is asking for pease with jewish, this will not happen!!
Tooners,
Again, people seem not to understand the situation.
If the Palestinians did practice peace then they would volunterely give them selves up for the Israeli’s to be slaughtered. You think the Israelis would have any compassion towards the Palestinians? It would be just an even easier way to get rid of them all. Hey they wouldn’t even need the support from the US and etc,etc…, they could accomplish their aim much easier without any help!!! No resistance, even better for them. If you do want to say something, say that Israelis should teach their children about “PEACE” first, afterall who are the agressors, who are the occupiers,?? Let alone the Children the adults should be taught first!
No resistance?
They have been put into situations that the average Russian would never have accepted during the Cold War.
We are going to take your land and submit you to slave standards and you are going to accept it!
We have better weapons and the US is protecting us.
Submit or die!
Bush is next to Osama.
I agree… peace needs to come from both sides. But I think that contuining a mentality of growing up and taking revenge isn’t good. When does or will it ever stop? I’m on the outside looking in so it’s hard for me to make a judgment… but I will say this, I see a lot of ppl filled w/ hate and always looking for revenge. I find it difficult to think about life progressing past that… if all one thinks about is killing. But again, I do agree w/ you about the Israeli’s needing to teach peace. My dream is that one day it will happen.
I just came back from three days in hell (NA version).
My 5 year old granddaughter was very ill and in the hospital.
This was my hell.
I can never be able to understand what hell these people are going through!
5 years old and detained by the IOF! Where are their brains?
Why isn’t the world upset? Why aren’t everyone blaming the Zionists (IOF) of infantcide?
The cold war is over, but I see that Israel is treating the Palestinians worse than how the Russians treated their own people.
The Jews were treated horrendously in WWII.
Now they treat the Pallestinians just as bad and they say it is a just treatment for terrorists. The Pallestinians are occupied in their own territory. The Pallestinians have lost their lands.
This comes from someone whose rescent past ancestors was named Rosenberg. That name is not brought up anymore because of past and present shames because of Israel.
How long will my brothers continue to foment hatred against the Israelis, and our own Jewish brothers? Who is it among us that start such outrageous trumped up lies, only to further the senseless bloodshed that our people have endured for the past 60 plus years? Are Arabs only simply the dupes of our Mullahs who gain the world as we,their loyal subjects, who being convinced that we should PROUDLY die, and teach our children to die also, by continually attacking our own brothers? They are not pigs, and they are not sub human. Let us live and let them live. Let us renounce the culture of death we have been taught as a race for the sake of what? Has not our creator, created all things? Satan has no power to create anything but lies, which lead to death and destruction. Is this what our Arab brothers about? Is this the heritage of our race? Mindless and perpetual anger and attack? Don’t simply react in anger at this, but think long and hard on these words. I compel you brother to consider this, and stop wasting yourselves as human fodder to be offered up for the sake of whom? There is no honor in murder. There is no righteousness in attacking someone who’s not attacking you. There is nothing but shame for those of us who continue in the old ways. Follow GOD and live. Follow the lying Mullahs and die.