01.08.2013                      25.Aw.5773

Verteidigung & Sicherheit:

IDF legal adviser backs detention of 5-year-old Palestinian stone-thrower

"While children are not criminally liable, IDF still has authority to deal with incidents in which they endanger public safety."

The soldiers who detained a five-year-old Palestinian stone-thrower in Hebron earlier this month were justified, the IDF’s West Bank legal adviser Doron Ben-Barak wrote to NGO B’Tselem in response to a complaint it had filed with him….