IDF Diligently Protects Palestinian Olive Trees
Three children aged 6, 11, and 12, residents of the settlement of Talmon in the West Bank, were detained by an IDF officer who suspected they stole a fistful of olives from a Palestinian grove.
The father told Ynet Thursday that the officer had scared the children badly by jokingly asking them to put their hands up. “They didn’t think it was funny at all,” he said.
The incident occurred two weeks ago when six brothers and sisters, aged 3-12, went out walking near their home in Talmon. They entered Palestinian territory located 50 meters from the settlement and picked some olives from the trees there.