The family of the 13-year-old child Saddam Al-Jabari appealed for his release from Israeli custody in a message to human rights groups on Saturday.
The family’s message also sent to organizations concerned with childhood said that it lost contact with its child afternoon Friday near the Ibrahimi mosque in downtown Al-Khalil.
The message said that eyewitnesses informed family members that they saw Israeli occupation forces taking away the child.
Fuad Al-Khafsh, the director of Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies and human rights that received the message, expressed concern about the fate of Jabari.
He said that the detention of a 13-year-old child ran contrary to all international laws and doctrines that incriminate the arrest of children in his age.
Khafsh pointed out that Palestinian children are subject to illegal practices ever since the moment of their arrest at the hands of Israeli soldiers including their detention and interrogation.
