Non Human cowards recruiting children - Earlier on Sunday, relatives of three Palestinian youths said Israeli security forces had arrested the three for planning to carry out a suicide attack out of anger over Israel's West Bank barrier.
The youths, ages 13 and 14, were among the youngest ever arrested for planning suicide attacks.
Mohammed Abu Mahsen said his 13-year-old son, Tarek, along with his friends, Jaffer Hussein, 13, and Ibrahim Suafta, 14, left a letter saying they planned to carry out a shooting attack at an Israeli military checkpoint or army base, he said.
Tarek's mother expressed outrage at Islamic Jihad for conscripting such young boys to their ranks. "My son doesn't know how to write such a letter and never belonged to any groups. Someone older wrote this letter for him," said his mother, Amira Abu Mahsen.
Most suicide bombers have been in their 20s. The youngest was 16 years old.
The army did not immediately comment.
The 13-year-olds claimed to be members of Islamic Jihad, while Suafta said he belonged to the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a militant group linked to Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, family members said. The boys were arrested last Thursday.
"I want to carry out an attack against (Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon's fence. This fence, we will blow it up also, the Islamic Jihad youth movement," Tarek wrote in the letter.
"We want you to give out candies and don't cry for us and hold a big demonstration," he added, referring to traditional salutes given to "martyrs" who die for the Palestinian cause.
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Israel says it needs the barrier of razor wire, concrete walls and trenches to prevent suicide bombers and other attackers from entering its towns and cities.
Mohammed Abu Mahsen said two men in their mid-20s looked for his young son last week and he didn't know why.
"Now I know why they were looking for my young son," Abu Mahsen said. "I will complain to the Palestinian intelligence to find whoever wanted to send my son ... I have to find out who these people are who wanted to send my son, my young son." |
