HEBRON TODAY

Israeli rights group B'Tselem today said Israel's mass arrest of children in Hebron was "unacceptable," and released a video of the detentions.

The video shows soldiers forcefully arresting schoolchildren, one of whom is dragged along the ground by a group of soldiers, as the children's relatives protest.

"This type of mass arrest of a group of minors, not on the basis of individual suspicions is unacceptable, even if the minors are formally over the age of criminal responsibility,



Israeli forces today detained some 30 students who were on their way to school in the southern area of Hebron, ( not Ramallah )

the students were transferred to Kiryat Arba police station, and that Israeli forces were detaining every student passing Tareq Bin Zeyad street.

they were making calls with the Israeli side to release the students.

An Israeli army spokeswoman said that soldiers "operated in the area today in order to contain rock hurling at security forces" following a recent increase in "rioting."

She said Palestinian minors had hurled rocks at soldiers at a checkpoint earlier Wednesday.

"A number of the Palestinian minors were detained on location, and seven were taken for questioning by Israeli police. The rest were released immediately."

She did not say how many children were detained initially.