Another Palestinian child used as a potential human bomb:

'Israel Defense Forces paratroopers caught a Palestinian boy, aged 12, wearing an explosive belt at the Hawara roadblock south of Nablus in the West Bank on Wednesday afternoon. Sappers used a remote-controlled robot to remove the belt from the boy's body and then safely detonated it in a controlled explosion. The boy has been taken in for questioning. The army believes that the boy was meant to detonate the belt near the soldiers or near the nearby army base.'

Posted by melanie at March 24, 2004