Israeli occupation soldiers were filmed detaining and intimidating a two-and-a-half-year-old Palestinian child during a curfew in Hebron’s Israeli-controlled H2 area, sparking renewed outrage over daily military practices in the occupied West Bank.
Video footage shared by Voice of Palestine Radio shows a two-and-a-half-year-old boy standing pressed against a wall beside a stairway leading to a residential building in the Makbarat Al-Ras neighborhood. The child appears visibly distressed as a male and a female Israeli soldier stand a short distance away in a firing stance, aiming their weapons in his direction.
Areej al-Jaabari, a Palestinian human rights activist who recorded the incident, told Anadolu news agency that the child was held in place for more than 15 minutes.
According to al-Jaabari, the toddler had stepped out of his home to cross the street to a nearby shop, unaware that strict security measures were in force in the area.
She said the neighborhood had been placed under a full curfew from Friday evening through Saturday, the weekly day off for Israeli settlers, a practice imposed since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in October 2023.
Because the child crossed the street in violation of these restrictions, he was detained and intimidated “like any other resident would be, including the elderly or the sick,” al-Jaabari said.
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She added that the toddler suffered severe fear and emotional distress, continuing to cry even after the soldiers left the scene, and eventually falling asleep from exhaustion.
The Makbarat Al-Ras neighborhood lies within the so-called H2 zone in Hebron (Al-Khalil), which includes the Old City and the Ibrahimi Mosque and remains under full Israeli military control under the 1997 Hebron Protocol signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The H1 area, which constitutes most of the city, is administered by the Palestinian Authority.
Since October 2023, Israeli forces and settlers have killed at least 1,105 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, wounded nearly 11,000 others, and detained around 21,000 people, according to Palestinian figures.
In a landmark advisory opinion issued last July, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory is illegal and called for the evacuation of all Israeli settlements from the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
(PC, Anadolu)
Every zionist is a terrorist, and terrorists deserves whatever befall them. These scums are only good at flexing their muscles on women and children, but still get their asses spanked when fighting starved men wielding home-made and improvised weapons. These bums and squatters are not just cowards, but useless as well considering the enormous amount of money squandered on their so called army.
The most moral army in the world. Shows its morality
I am surprised the IDF did not break one of the toddler’s arms as is common practice according to IDF soldiers.
Coward bastards.. always looking to try to extend thier manhood, epic failure.