Israel on Thursday afternoon released nine-month-old Balqis Ghawadra and two-year-old Baraa Ghawadra who were detained by authorities the day before during a visit to see their jailed father. Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) often ignore laws and arrest infant Palestinians without warrant.
Executive director of the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) Abdullah al-Zaghari said the Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem transferred the two siblings to the PPS after Israeli authorities handed them over to the hospital’s administration due to the severe trauma the infants suffered during their ordeal.
The two children had been detained, strip-searched and molested, alongside their mother, in a social affairs office in the southern Israeli-occupied city of Beersheba since Wednesday, Zaghari said, adding that the mother, Nihal Ghawadra from Bir al-Basha near Jenin, was still in custody.
No word yet as to what charges the infants face, the normal sentence for suspected infant terrorism is 20 years in an Israeli prison. According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Israel is the only country in the world where children are systematically tried in military courts and subjected to "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment."
But these people aren't nuts, no sirree bob! It just appears that way to any normal thinking human being!
