"EVERY Friday and often after school on other days,
Israeli soldiers fire tear-gas and sonic bombs at the Palestinian children as
they approach a spring. It sits in a valley that separates Nabi Saleh, an Arab
village of 500 people half an hour’s drive north of Jerusalem, from Halamish, a
religious Jewish settlement. On most nights jeeps roll through the village; over
the past 18 months the Israeli army has detained 32 of its children, some as
young as eleven. Many have been taken from their beds, kept in pre-trial
detention for months, and brought to court in shackles, there to be convicted of
stone-throwing.""