Muhammad al-Majid’s father, Zine, said that Israeli forces woke his little son up in the middle of the night to snatch him.
“A big force raided our house at dawn on Thursday, and demanded to know the names of my children. So I told them and they said, ‘we have an arrest order for Muhammad.’ I was shocked and asked one of them if he was sure. Muhammad is only four years old! But the officer was not convinced and asked me to wake him up,” he said.
He says, however, that they backed down from carrying out the arrest after seeing the child.
The father added, “I told the officer, ‘you want to arrest him; should I send milk and diapers with him?’”
The detention of children so young is not unprecedented by Israeli forces.
Last year, a 2.5-year-old boy was about to be arrested in a similar attempt in the village of Kafr Qaddum in the northern West Bank.
Human rights organizations are warning that Palestinian children are routinely tortured and habitually threatened with rape by their Israeli captors.
According to the independent organization of Defense for Children International, 179 Palestinian minors have been imprisoned and prosecuted in Israeli military courts, since September 30.
More than 4,500 Palestinian prisoners, including about 170 administrative detainees, are held in Israeli prisons, many of them without charges or trial.
Administrative detention is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charges that allows Israel to incarcerate Palestinians for up to six months. The detention order can be renewed for indefinite periods of time.
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have been suffering human rights violations such as the use of torture during interrogations by prison authorities.
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