Palestine's daily indignities: Israeli police break into Palestinian kindergarten, search children's bags for "weapons"

Quds News
Tue, 18 Feb 2020 17:59 UTC

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Israeli policemen searching bags of the children of Baida'a Ath Thalj kindergarten in the city of Tayibe, which is located in the land occupied in 1948.

Large numbers of heavily-armed Israeli policemen on Monday broke into Baida'a AthThalj kindergarten in the city of Tayibe in the land occupied in 1948 and searched children's bags, spreading fear among the children, reported Arab 48.

The Israeli raid comes a few days after breaking into a school in occupied Acre and taking a 9-year-old girl for interrogation.

The Israelis searched the bags of all children despite trials by teachers to prevent them.

The police claimed that it was looking for weapons inside the children's bags.

Rabab Oweidah, a teacher in the kindergarten, told Arab 48 that she "was very concerned about the children, who seemed very scared and shocked

.""I tried very hard to prevent them from breaking into the kindergarten but they insisted. I told them that they are only children and that they will be scared. I suggested that they search every surrounding house until the children leave to their homes then they come back to search the kindergarten but they refused. The situation was out of the ordinary", she said.

"They would never do that to their children", Oweidah added. "However, they treat us as if we were criminals. This is how they think. I've never seen such thing in my whole life."

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Surveillance camera shows Israeli policemen breaking into Bayda'a Ath Thalj kindergarten to seach children's bags for weapons.

Saja Jaber, a mother of two children who happened to be in the kindergarten during the Israeli raid, told Arab 48 "I was running and I was very shocked of the huge number of the policemen, who broke into the kindergarten. I did not know what was happening at the beginning but I was scared."

"I tried to prevent them from searching my son but they insisted and shamelessly said that they will search every single child and anyone entering or leaving the kindergarten. I told them that they were scaring the children but they didn't care!"

"My son didn't understand what was going on but my daughter did and she was very scared telling me all the details", she said.

In another context, An Nas radio revealed that Israeli policemen broke into an Arabic school in Acre on Thursday and took a 9-year-old girl for interrogation.

Comment: Quds News also reported the destruction of a water supply in Jericho the same week:

Israeli occupation forces today destroyed pipes providing water to al-Shunah quarter in the village of al-Jiftlik, located in the Jordan Valley to the north of Jericho, according to Qais al-Sinawi, a local activist.

He told official Palestinian news agency WAFA that Israeli forces raided the village and proceeded to destroy the connectors supplying running water to Palestinian crops.

Palestinians tend to install water connector to the main Israeli water carrier lines which supply between 400 and 700 cubic meters of underground Palestinian water per hour to the colonial settlements, which is for them the only way they can get water to their homes, crops and livestock as Israel bans them from building water pipes of their own.

Israel does not allow Palestinian development in the Jordan Valley, which its politicians have made it clear on several occasions that the fertile Jordan Valley would be annexed to Israel.