Arab toddler said held for 4 hours by police

1 March 2016, 5:14 pm

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A 2-year-old Arab boy was held for four hours at a police station in Jerusalem along with his parents and brother, 16, who was arrested over various suspicions, including that he had thrown rocks, Haaretz reports.

The boy, from Issawiya in the east of the city, was eventually released to his grandparents, the report says. Throughout his stay at the police station, he was barefoot and in pajamas.

“We didn’t understand what they wanted,” his mother, Tahrir, tells Haaretz of the security forces who arrived in their home at 2 a.m. Sunday to arrest the boy’s brother. “Their entire bodies were covered. We saw only their eyes. They knocked my husband to the ground and banged my 20-year-old son’s head against a door several time[s].”