JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli undercover police late Monday detained a 10-year-old Palestinian boy near his home in the Shufat neighborhood of East Jerusalem, leading to clashes between locals and Israeli forces, family said.
Muhammad Said Oweida, 10, was returning home from a nearby shop when Israeli forces assaulted him and arrested him, his uncle told Ma’an.
The uncle said Israeli undercover officers in civilian clothes arrested Muhammad, and that some locals initially thought they were Israeli settlers.
Clashes broke out in the area, with Israeli forces firing stun grenades.
An Israeli police statement said Muhammad was detained for throwing stones at the light rail train in the neighborhood.
In July 2014, a group of right-wing Israelis kidnapped and murdered 16-year-old Shufat local Muhammad Abu Khdeir, leading to days of protests and clashes with Israeli forces in the neighborhood.
Israeli forces regularly arrest minors in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, usually on the pretext of stone-throwing.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem in 1967 and later annexed the internationally recognized Palestinian territory in a move never recognized abroad
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