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Israeli rights group: Troops seize Palestinian boy

News Desk (Associated Press)

Jerusalem

Fri, March 24, 2017 Published on Mar. 24, 2017 Published on 2017-03-24T19:40:46+07:00

Women cry during the funeral of a 17-year old Palestinian Mahmoud Hattab at the Jalazoun refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, March 24, 2017. The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli troops killed the 17-year-old Palestinian and wounded another three when soldiers opened fire on their car in the West Bank. The Israeli military said the men had exited their vehicle near a Jewish settlement and "hurled fire bombs" at the community. It said the soldiers fired at the attackers, who fled the scene in their vehicle. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

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n Israeli rights group has released an amateur video it says shows soldiers seizing a terrified 8-year-old Palestinian boy as they tried to get him to identify people who had thrown a firebomb in the West Bank.

B'Tselem said he "was wandering barefoot outside his house in Hebron looking for a toy he had lost" when soldiers "dragged" him around a neighborhood to show them Palestinians they said had earlier thrown a firebomb at a nearby settlement.

The military said Friday forces caught a suspect in the firebomb attack and "due to the fact the suspect was a minor, he was taken to his parent's home." It denied he was asked to identify other suspects.

Hebron has been a flashpoint in the recent wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence.