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Monday, September 8, 2014
Signs of a failing state: Arresting a seven year old child.
Israeli Border Police detained two Palestinian boys in the West Bank city of Hebron Monday morning on suspicion of throwing stones. The age of criminal culpability under Israeli military law is 12.
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