On Saturday evening 20 November 2010, two CPTers responded to a phone call from a shopkeeper in the Old City telling them that Israelis soldiers had arrested a fourteen year-old boy who had allegedly thrown stones.

 When the CPTers reached the Beit Romano checkpoint, the boy was sitting inside the military compound with about fifteen soldiers. The boy's father was present but soldiers prevented him from speaking to his son.

 The soldiers then began participating in an intense military action. Onlookers told CPTers that Molotov cocktails had been thrown at a military patrol.  At least twenty more soldiers arrived, and began patrolling in all directions.  Another CPTer joined the others, and two followed one patrol plus two Israeli police along Shelalah Street. The police appeared to be gathering evidence in one of the side streets that connects Shelalah Street with Old Shelalah Street. One of the police picked up some objects and put them in a bag. Then they left.

 Meanwhile, soldiers were making other arrests—among them an eighteen year old youth. As his father tried to speak him, a soldier began to push him away.  A CPTer then stood between the soldier and the father to defuse further violence.  Soldiers stopped and searched an number of other Palestinians youths.   The military appeared to be looking for evidence that they had handled the petrol used in the Molotov cocktails. 

An adult male was the third to be arrested.  Onlookers told CPTers that soldiers had invaded his home in the Old City, and searched it thoroughly. CPTers went to the house and noted the damage and evidence of searching.  Other internationals were present and comforting the family.  CPTers learned that the man's son had run away when the soldiers arrived.  The wife of the arrested man told international observers and CPTers that a soldier had told her that she must take her son to the Kiryat Arba police station immediately, or the soldiers would find him and kill him.  One of the CPTers was able to tell the woman that the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee has a lawyer who would be able to help her.

Soldiers later released the fourteen-year-old.