Nablus: Where Children Become Sacrificial Lambs

Less than 24 hours after the Beersheba bus station bombing comes the news that Israeli Security forces have detained another would-be suicide bomber at a checkpoint from the West Bank reports the Jerusalem Post.

A 14-year-old Palestinian was arrested after he was caught carrying three pipe bombs through the Hawara checkpoint south of Nablus Monday afternoon. The teenager set off the alarm of the metal detector positioned at the crossing, alerting soldiers manning the position. He was found to be carrying in a bag three pipe bombs that were to be activated by a friction type detonator. The bombs were packed with explosives, as well as shrapnel and glass balls. Border police sappers blew up the bomb and the youth was handed over to the Shin Bet for questioning.

It seems that this young man was not the first youth to be apprehended at this checkpoint this year:

On June 19 of this year a Palestinian youth was apprehended at the checkpoint while attempting to smuggle five pipe bombs. A month prior to that incident a 14-year-old Palestinian wearing a belt with two pipe bombs strapped to it was arrested, and in another incident at the same place, a 15-year-old Palestinian was arrested after he was discovered carrying two pipe bombs inside a black bag

I can only pray that there is a very special place reserved in the afterlife for those who indoctrinate, manipulate and exploit the lives of these young people with such reckless disregard for their well-being, or their families, that they are offered up as sacrificial lambs for the slaughter on the altar of anti-Semitism.