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Israel releases Palestinian teenager after 4 months
Published Tuesday 25/10/2011 (updated) 29/10/2011 18:14
Correction appended

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli authorities released on Tuesday Omar Jaradat, 17, from Saeer village north of Hebron after four months in the Israeli prison Ofer. He also paid a 5,000-shekel fine.

Israeli forces tried to forbid people who were waiting for the child near the checkpoint from welcoming him and tried to remove Palestinian flags that were on cars near the checkpoint.

The released prisoner spoke of harsh conditions inside the jails. He said that as winter approaches, there are few clothes for the prisoners and the authorities prevent families from providing them.

(In a previous version of this report, Ma'an misstated Jaradat's age as 11. He is 17, according to Palestinian prisoners society records. They also show he was jailed for four months, not five. An updated headline reflects both corrections. It originally read: "Israel releases Palestinian child after 5 months".)
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1 ) Fred / U.K
26/10/2011 00:10
How come a child was kept in prison for that time,only in a civilised country like Israel something like this can happen,and they can get away with it.
2 ) Kathy P / USA
26/10/2011 01:04
Sad to think this how his tender childhood comes to an end...
3 ) mira / USA
26/10/2011 18:03
11 years old in prison, so this kid was 6 years old when they put him there, OMG israelis authorities are so cruel.. humanity doesn't exist i guess to these people.. they cant put him in a school of discipline for whatever he did.. Prison?? they are insane. let s see if palestinians people or authorities will put Israeli kids in prison , and five yrs, than we will see the US reaction and israeli. bombs on palestine.. to kill mor people, like they did in lebanon war 2006.. bunch of criminals
4 ) children's rights / Canada
27/10/2011 04:45
What a brutal and cruel regime. To put a young child in prison and for what? For being Palestinian?
5 ) sylvia / uk
27/10/2011 12:57
Fred (1) do my eyes deceive me? Did you really call Israel "a civilised country?"
6 ) Ish Kabibble / Delancey
27/10/2011 14:28
Mira
The juvenile delinquent was held for five months, not 5 years, read the story again

Sylvia
Do you really call a Juvenile delinquent just a child, he should have been home playing instead of getting himself into trouble

Childrens' whatever
The child was put in jail because he did something bad, which the story failed to indicate
7 ) Chris / UK
27/10/2011 20:53
And at the same time Tietal who murdered two policemen and 2 Palestinians in what even Israelis admit were terrorist attacks has still not been tried fr his crimes. But then again he is Jewish so no real surprise there then
8 ) Nina / UK
27/10/2011 21:10
Ish kabbible How can you possibly say that a democratic country can fairly jailed a kid for 5 months No matter what he did he's 11 for God's sake If he did something wrong he should be locked in a juvenile educative place not a jail! It's a really sad world!
9 ) Patricia Kane / USA
27/10/2011 21:23
That's one child released. How many others are in prison? Children in prison? Has the world gone mad?
10 ) NOT a child / USA
28/10/2011 07:03
The comments here are so gullible (one person can't even do month, claiming that he was put away when he was 6, when in reality, the article says only 5 months).

http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7531:weekly-report-on-israeli-human-rights-violations-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-23-29-june-2011&catid=84:weekly-2009&Itemid=183

More like 17 years old... Not 11... A bit of research guys.
11 ) Khouloud / Germany
28/10/2011 08:21
@ish... Eleven years old is a kid not a juvenile delinquent... But he's not ur kid he's just a palestinian kid so 4 u its normal!!!!
12 ) YES a child / Israel
01/11/2011 15:28
Ofer prison is an adult jail holding, among others, dangerous people. Politics aside, a child, whatever his crime, should NEVER be held in such a place. It's not about "democracy", it's common sense and plain wrong. As a citizen here, I can't say I'm all for children running free and throwing rocks and molotov cocktails around, but if detained and tried, it should be in a proper minor's facility according to international standards.
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