Israel: 800 youths held over rock attacks in last five years - report
Over the past five years, Israel’s military has detained more than 800 Palestinian youths and children for pelting rocks at Israeli soldiers, and has interrogated and jailed many of them, a rights group said in a new report.
Drawing on military statistics and interviews for its 70-page report, the Israeli rights group B’Tselem counted 835 minors who were taken into custody from 2005 to early 2011, including 34 children who were 13 or younger.
