In the last month, the Israeli military has been detaining children for extended lengths of time in the Old City, and at times appearing to be “practicing” soldiery by randomly selecting boys off the street and searching them. 

In one incident, a fifteen-year-old neighbor of the Hebron team was cutting a rope on a package of materials in his father’s shop when soldiers saw him.  They grabbed him, blindfolded him, and led him off to their military gate at another checkpoint close to a settlement.  The father followed the soldiers, pleading for his son, trying to explain why the son needed to use a knife.