The Shin Bet security service said Wednesday morning that it had arrested a 14-year-old Palestinian boy from the West Bank town of Nablus on suspicion of planning to carry out a suicide bombing. The boy was arrested Tuesday.
During questioning, the boy said he had an argument with his father and that militants from the Fatah movement in the Balata refugee camp who knew of this attempted to convince him to become a suicide bomber.
According to the boy, the wanted men took him for a motivation talk in an apartment in the refugee camp and even filmed his "video testimony," in which the boy is seen holding a rifle and announcing his intent to carry out a suicide attack.
The Shin Bet said that the militants who took the boy to the apartment included Jamal Tirawi, a member of the Tanzim and the Palestinian Authority intelligence service in Nablus.
Tirawi has been involved in previous terror attacks and this incident is new evidence that a PA official has been involved in terrorist activity during the period of Tahadiya, or temporary cease-fire, agreed between the different Palestinian factions.
One of the fastest growing areas of growth in the West Bank and Gaza is the exploitation and use of children as weapon guidance systems. In this case, it is alleged that a Palestinian Authority Intelligence Agent had vetting power and saw nothing wrong with utilizing a young teenage male whose only radicalization was having the misfortune to have had a relatively public argument with his father – an all too typical teenage phenomena. But where is the international outrage and condemnation that the Palestinian Authority “militants” are exploiting other people’s children to carry out their reign of terror? The silence is positively deafening.
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