JERUSALEM – Israel has over the past five years arrested 835 Palestinian youths for stone-throwing, sentencing most of them to prison time, a human rights organisation said in a report yesterday.
The Israeli group B’Tselem said the military mistreated and violated the rights of the youths, most between the ages 16 and 17, but some as young as 12 or 13. Their jail time ranged from a few days to a year. – (Reuters)