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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Israeli Soldiers Kidnap Several Children In Jerusalem just before graduation

IMEMC – Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday, at dawn several Palestinian children, aged 16-18, in al-Suwwana area, near the walls of occupied East Jerusalem.....

....the soldiers broke into the homes of the youths and kidnapped them before moving them to al-Maskobiyya interrogation center in West Jerusalem.

...some of the kidnapped were supposed to celebrate school graduation this day.

...said that the arrests carried out just before graduation from school are a deliberate act aimed at depressing the youth.

He added that such arrests are also meant to impose psychological pressures on the youths and their families.  Full story