Video: Israeli soldiers appear to harass 3-year-old Palestinian boy in Hebron

March 29th, 2018

Awake Goy

Palestinian journalist Raed Abu Rumaila recorded an apparent instance of Israeli soldiers harassing a 3-year old child in Hebron’s Old City on Tuesday, posting the clip and photos of the incident to social media.

Above the video, Abu Rumaila wrote, “A soldier carrying a vegetable corer and claiming that the child was trying to stab him.” The footage is shaky and looks like it was recorded on a cell phone. In frame are two soldiers, one holding the metal corer and another holding the unidentified boy by the arm. When the boy’s father approaches with another child, the soldier pulls back, but his clutch is quickly released. In the last frame the three year old is crouching behind his father.

It is unknown what occurred in the moments before recording began.

In a separate post of photographs of the same encounter, Abu Rumaila wrote the incident took place “near the Ibrahimi Mosque,” a religious site in the West Bank’s largest city, Hebron, that is divided between Israeli and Palestinian use and often a flashpoint for violence.

Under Israeli military codes which govern Palestinians in the West Bank, the age of criminal liability is 12. It is 14 for Israeli citizens.