IOF arrests two children including 9-year-old, assaults others in Megiddo jail

IOF arrests two children including 9-year-old, assaults others in Megiddo jail by FalastinNews Staff

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested on Sunday two Jerusalemite children after breaking into their homes.

Jerusalemite Prisoners' Families Committee said in a statement that the IOF arrested the 9-year-old minor Ahmad Shweiki and transferred him to Salah al-Din Street police station in Jerusalem.

The IOF also arrested the minor Yazan Ayoub, 14, after breaking into his home in Beit Hanina town in northern Occupied Jerusalem.

In a related context, the IOF arrested on Sunday a Palestinian youth close to Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil.

Local sources said that the IOF soldiers positioned at a military checkpoint set in the vicinity of the Ibrahimi Mosque held a Palestinian youth for many hours then arrested and transferred him to an unknown destination.

In another context, the Israeli Occupation Authorities released the Jerusalemite prisoner Abdul-Rahim Khalil, 30, after serving his 3-month administrative detention sentence.

Moreover, Israeli jailers assaulted two Jerusalemite minors imprisoned in Megiddo Israeli jail. They were isolated before being transferred to Hasharon prison because they protested against humiliating their families in visitation.

The 17-year-old boys Suhaib Afaneh and Amin Hamid stated that a force of Israeli jailers cuffed and transferred them to isolation cells then started beating them continuously during the journey from Megiddo to Hasharon jails.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society revealed, in a statement on Sunday, that both minors were isolated for three days and were taken out of cells after prisoners protested.

They were returned back to solitary confinement and assaulted again as they protested against the presence of the Israeli jailers inside their section in which they were held.

The Society pointed out that the Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA) brought the two detained minors to internal trials which imposed penalties on them including isolation and deprivation of canteen and family visit.

They also were forced to pay a fine estimated at 220 shekels each. After their fellow prisoners had protested, by returning back their meals, the isolation of both minors was ended and they were transferred to Hasharon jail.