Four Israeli Arabs were arrested by the Israeli security forces on Wednesday in the Galilee village of Deir Hanna, for planning anti-Israeli attacks and alleged collaboration with the Palestinian Fateh movement, reported Israel Radio.
The police claimed that the four had on Friday left a bomb on an Israeli bus, but that it was found and dismantled.
The radio said that two of the suspects were 15 years old. They were recruited by Fateh in the West bank city of Jenin, the report said.
Amnesty International reported early this year that Israeli occupation forces had killed nearly 100 Palestinian children, nearly all in situations where the soldiers were in no immediate danger.
International NGO workers say the actual percentage of Palestinian children in pro-indepence demonstrations is very low - around one percent - but add that the media magnifies their participation.
“Palestinian children have spent their entire lives under military occupation,” Monica Tarazi, staff person for an umbrella organization of Palestinian NGOs, told Albawba.com in an earlier interview. “They have seen their parents and grandparents humiliated by Israeli soldiers at checkpoints, they have seen their friend's homes demolished, they have seen their land confiscated to build roads and settlements for exclusive Israeli use.”
“They have never played on grass; their playgrounds are the alleyways of their refugee camps. They have witnessed their older siblings and cousins being hauled off to…prisons, not to return for months or years, and they have heard about the torture they endured there,” Tarazi said.
“Palestinian children feel the oppression of the Israeli occupation as heavily as their parents, so it's hardly surprising that they have played an active role in resisting it" – Albawaba.com
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