"The accusation adjoin him [Manasra] is not that he stabbed anybody, but that he had the ambition to kill," said Lea Tsemel, Mansara's lawyer. "We will accept to prove he did not accept that intention, but rather to could cause affliction and frighten," Tsemel told Al Jazeera.
Israel's Jerusalem District Cloister accusable Manasra on accuse of attempted annihilation on October 30, afterward an advance on two Israelis on October 12 at the actionable Pisgat Ze'ev settlement. The two Israelis survived their wounds. Israeli Badge attempt asleep Hassan Manasra, Ahmed's accessory who accompanied him at the time, and a casual car ran over Manasra.
A video of Ahmed, asthmatic and extensive his duke out for help, a abashed announcement on his face, went viral and sparked outrage. In the video, anyone is heard shouting and cursing him in Arabic with an Israeli accent: "Die, son of a whore, die!" Other bystanders accursed him and shouted "Die!" in Hebrew.
He was accepted into the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem and was convalescent from a torn skull.Manasra is currently getting captivated in a bankrupt analysis ability in arctic Israel, with the cloister abnegation the family's appeal that he be placed beneath abode arrest. As his altogether approaches after this month, so is the likelihood that he will be bedevilled already he turns 14.
According to Israeli law, accouchement beneath 14 cannot be bedevilled to jail. Endure November, however, in a basic vote, the Israeli Knesset accustomed a bill that would acquiesce Palestinian amateur beneath 14 who are adverse agitation accuse to accept bastille sentences, which they would alpha confined aloft axis 14.
If passed, the law would alone affect accouchement who are citizens of Israel, as Israeli aggressive law already allows for accouchement from the active West Bank and Gaza to be placed in aegis prisons from the age of 12.
The bill is allotment of Israel's crackdown Palestinian action to Israel's colonial policies. An beginning of accumulation demonstrations took abode beyond Israel and the active territories by Palestinians in beef at the raids by Jewish agitator groups into the al-Aqsa Mosque admixture and the connected adjustment expansion.
In 2015, Israeli soldiers or settlers attempt and dead 179 Palestinians, including bent protesters, bystanders and declared attackers.
Since October 1, abandoned Palestinian assailants accept dead 23 Israelis, including soldiers. Israel has aswell acclimated the developments in the accomplished several months to appoint astringent restrictions on Palestinians active in active East Jerusalem. Human rights organisations, including B'Tselem and Amnesty International, accept accused Israel of cutting to annihilate in cases area the doubtable no best airish any danger, and of extrajudicial executions.
Manasra's claiming was aswell bent on camera. Endure November, in a broadly aggregate video, arise advanced of the trial, Israeli policemen arise to be verbally abusing Manasra, who is from Jerusalem, pressuring him to acknowledge to attempting to "murder Jews" and "aiding an adversary at the time of war".
Several Israeli badge admiral are apparent agreeable at Manasra, cogent him that he had committed crimes and that he accept to confess. Manasra, visibly traumatised is apparent crying, hitting his own head, and repeating "I do not remember" afore breaking down in tears.Human rights watchdogs accept generally denounced Israel's ache and ache of Palestinian accouchement during arrest and interrogation.
The amount of Palestinian accouchement in Israeli aegis added than angled as a aftereffect of the unrest, and a new adolescent area was opened at Givot prison. According to captive abutment accumulation Addameer, at atomic 876 Palestinians, including 133 children, accept been arrested back October 1 beyond the active West Bank, including East Jerusalem and Israel.
Other figures, calm by the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan, say that at atomic 60 accouchement were arrested in Jerusalem during the aboriginal two weeks of the agitation endure October.
"Interrogations can be even added astringent than what the video shows, involving attached in aching positions, accusation and slapping, and beddy-bye deprivation," Sahar Francis, administrator of prisoners' rights accumulation Addameer, told Al Jazeera.
Manasra's ancestors believes it was absolutely videos such as these that are partly to accusation for what happened.
"Young humans see what happens at the al-Aqsa Mosque, how [Israeli forces] exhausted Palestinians, ladies - they see Palestinians getting killed, like what happened to the Dawabsheh family," Khaled Manasra, Ahmed's uncle and Hassan's father, told Al Jazeera. "In their minds, they anticipate they can stop it."
"Later, Ahmed told us that they had been talking about the amount tag attacks in our own neighbourhood, area settlers damaged cars and sprayed graffiti adjoin Arabs," the boy's uncle said.
Still, Khaled Manasra struggles to accept what happened. "They were approved kids, traveling to academy and arena video amateur and accomplishing parkour," he said, abacus they had never been arrested before.
"I don't anticipate Ahmed understands the force of what is traveling on. When he was at the hospital, he told his lawyer, 'enough now, I'm tired. Take me home.'"
Alaa Tartir, programme administrator at the Palestinian anticipate catchbasin al-Shabaka that examines the role of political parties in the contempo uprising, holds the acceptable Palestinian political parties amenable for 'educating' and overextension acquaintance about the political bearings a part of adolescent Palestinians.
"At some point in the struggle, it was the albatross of the Palestinian political parties to "educate" those accouchement and action them the political ability and acquaintance needed," said Tartir.
"Most acceptable a 13-year-old adolescent does not accept what is political or advocate violence,but he knows able-bodied what it agency to reside beneath a barbarous aggressive occupation. He would attestant abuse and abuse on a circadian basis, feel affronted and humiliated, watch clips of others who are bent by the application forces, and appropriately attempt with aching images that get accepted in his psychology."
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