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Occupation magazine - Life under occupation Home page  back Print  Send To friend IDF detains a child and destroys four structures Operation Dove PRESS RELEASE January 21, 2015 At Tuwani - South Hebron Hills, West Bank A Palestinian child was detained without their parents being present. Families needed a Municipality aid to keep themselves in a safe place after the demolition. On January 20, Israeli forces detained a Palestinian child near the village of Maghayir Al Abeed and demolished four structures in the Palestinian village of Ar-Rifa`iyya in the South Hebron Hills area. At about 9.00 a.m. IDF bulldozers started to tear down two houses and two animal shelters, belonged to the Palestinian Rabai family in Ar-Rifa`iyya. The demolitions affected a total of twenty-five people, included ten children. The Municipality placed two tents to let the people involved have a place to stay at least during the night. Only twenty days ago, on December 31, in the village of Ad-Deirat, close to Ar-Rifa`iyya, two settlers broke a window and threw a molotov cocktail inside a Palestinian-owned house, trying to burn it (read more). Ar-Rifa`iyya and Ad-Deirat villages are located in Area C, under Israeli military and administrative control. In the meanwhile of the Ar-Rifa`iyya demolitions, Israeli army and police jeeps reached the area of Old Havat Ma`on Hill near the Palestinian village of Maghayir Al Abeed, where some young Palestinian shepherds were grazing their flocks. An Israeli soldier run against a Palestinian child, aged 14. The soldier chase away his flock, put him inside the military jeep with one goat and detained him. After one hour, the Israeli Army released him in a seriously dangerous place between the Israeli illegal outpost of Havat Ma`on and the Israeli settlement of Ma`on. In this place several times Palestinians, including children, were attacked by Israeli settlers. Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies stated that during 2014 the Israeli soldiers arrested 1200 Palestinian children, an issue that shows a 60% increase comparing to 2013, when the soldiers arrested 750 children. Despite demolitions and arrests, Palestinians from South Hebron Hills are strongly committed in a nonviolent and popular resistance against the Israeli occupation. Operation Dove has maintained an international presence in At-Tuwani and the South Hebron Hills since 2004. Pictures of the demolitions: http://goo.gl/MTRntt For further information: Operation Dove, 054 99 25 773 [Note: According to the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Hague Regulations, the International Court of Justice, and several United Nations resolutions, all Israeli settlements and outposts in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal. Most settlement outposts, including Havat Ma`on (Hill 833), are considered illegal also under Israeli law.] Links to the latest articles in this section Occupation forces injure mourners following funeral of slain infant Mohammad Tamimi Nabi Saleh village assaulted - toddler shot in the head died in hospital Palestinians in the snow: thrown from home into the snow, throw snowballs and get arrested