[News] Israel summons 8-year-old Palestinian girl for interrogation

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https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190801-israel-summons-8-year-old-palestinian-girl-for-interrogation/ 



  Israel summons 8-year-old Palestinian girl for interrogation

August 1, 2019
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Israeli authorities yesterday summoned an eight-year-old Palestinian 
girl from the occupied West Bank city of Hebron for interrogation, 
making her the third minor to be called in for questioning this week.

According to sources who informed the Palestinian news agency /Wafa/, 
Israeli soldiers raided the home of Hebron resident Shadi Sadr last 
night and gave him a summons for his eight-year-old daughter Malak to 
appear at an interrogation centre. Her crime, the father was told, was 
allegedly harassing the military-backed Israeli settlers.

The incident comes amid a recent spate of summons and interrogations of 
extremely young Palestinian children this past week for a number of 
alleged crimes including throwing cartons at occupation forces and 
“harassing” settlers and settlement projects. The first arrest was that 
of four-year-old Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan on Tuesday 
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190730-jerusalem-israel-summons-4-year-old-palestinian-for-interrogation/> 
and the second was issued to the father of six-year-old Qais Firas Obaid 
yesterday 
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190731-israel-summons-father-of-6-year-old-palestinian-child-who-threw-carton-at-soldiers/>, 
both of whom were residents of the same east Jerusalem neighbourhood of 
Issawiya.

According to the Palestine branch of the rights group Defence for 
Children International, at least 8,000 Palestinian children have been 
arrested and prosecuted in the Israeli military detention system since 2000.

*READ: Muhammad Elayyan is a small child, but was still taken for an 
Israeli interrogation 
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190731-mohammad-elayyan-is-a-small-child-but-was-still-taken-for-an-israeli-interrogation/>*

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