- Israeli forces detained four Palestinian children and two young men from different neighborhoods of occupied East Jerusalem, after ransacking their homes overnight Wednesday, a human rights lawyer and local sources told Ma'an. Addameer human rights lawyer, Muhammad Mahmoud, said Israeli forces detained Ramiz Ajlouni, 12, and Muatazz Said, 16, in the Old City of Jerusalem overnight on Wednesday, while locals sources told Ma'an Nabil Sidir, 13, was also detained from his home in the Old City. Locals in the East Jerusalem village of Sur Bahir told Ma'an that Israeli forces stormed the village and detained Muhyiddin Najih Ibkerat, 20, Nasser Amirah, 25, and Muatazz Mahmoud Dabash, a Palestinian in his twenties. On Tuesday night, Israeli forces also detained eight young men and minors from the neighborhood of Silwan, the village of al-Tur and the Old City -- all in occupied East Jerusalem -- for alleged stone-throwing. Silwan-based monitor, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, reported that Israeli forces have detained 34 young men and 26 teenagers in the neighborhood in the past five days alone. Most of the 60 were detained during clashes in East Jerusalem neighborhoods in protest against Israeli forces storming the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and attacking worshipers, the monitor group said. Since 2000, at least 8,000 Palestinian children have been arrested and prosecuted in Israeli military courts, according to the Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP). The organization has documented that on average, 500-700 Palestinian children are arrested, detained and prosecuted in the Israeli military court system each year. After sentencing, nearly 60 percent of Palestinian child detainees are transferred from occupied Palestinian territory to prisons inside Israel in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, according to DCIP.
