IOF soldiers arrest Palestinian woman for refusing strip search, beat up child

[ 18/11/2009 - 10:10 AM ]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained a Palestinian women on Tuesday night in downtown Al-Khalil after she refused to strip for search. Local and press sources said that the IOF troops ordered Om Wisam Duvesh to take off her clothes for search and when she refused, even when the soldiers tried to force her to do that, she was arrested. Duvesh, in her forties, was beaten by the soldiers and taken to a police station in Kiryat Arba settlement east of the city. Meanwhile, IOF soldiers beat up a 10-year-old child in Deir Al-Ghussun village, Tulkarem district, and detained him for 11 hours at the pretext he participated in an anti-wall march. Local sources said that Hussam Mihana, 10, returned to his family home with bruises all over his body, and told his parents that two soldiers severely beat him up.