’Israel’ Issues Wanted Posters for Palestinian Kids: We’ll Catch You

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Asaf Hikmat, a West Bank Palestinian teen, can hardly concentrate on his upcoming exams, as he has been on the lookout for "Israeli" soldiers ever since he found his face on an "Israeli" army wanted poster.

Asaf is one of several youngsters who took part in their village's weekly protests against "Israeli" settlement expansion.

Such demonstrations would regularly end in tear gas and rubber coated bullets, but the "Israeli" Army has recently come up with something new - posters with kids' faces, reading ‘We are the army. Be careful. We will catch you if we see you.'
"We got very afraid when they put our pictures up, they are threatening that they will arrest us and they will come and take us from our homes," Asaf stated.

The posters depicting the children as outlaws with a bounty on their head are just part and parcel of the "Israeli" intimidation techniques, confimed Murad Shtaiwi, Coordinator of the Popular Resistance Committee.

"Every night, nearly, they come and shoot tear gas and sound bombs toward the houses to frighten and to let the children live in very bad psychological situation," Shtaiwi told RT.

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child issued a report in June, confirming that thousands of Palestinian children were systematically injured, tortured and used as human shields by the Zionist entity.

During the 10-year period examined by UN human rights experts, up to 7,000 children aged 9 to 17 were arrested, interrogated and detained, the report said.

Just last week, a video was released showing a 5-year-old Palestinian boy being detained by the "Israeli" military.

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