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00:00This land was promised to the Jewish nation by God.
00:14For more than 40 years, Israel has controlled the West Bank.
00:20But now there are serious claims that Palestinian children are being systematically targeted,
00:25arrested and jailed in the battle to control this disputed territory.
00:31And it's that fear and intimidation that makes this system work so effectively well.
00:37You never know when there's going to be the bang on the door in the middle of the night.
00:43Let me say this very clearly. There is no such policy.
00:47A policy to create fear, there is no such thing.
00:50A peaceful evening in a small Palestinian village.
01:13A 14-year-old boy and his family sleep.
01:26Suddenly, the night is shattered.
01:27The Israeli army is making a raid.
01:33Their target, the boy who they claim has thrown stones at them.
01:37His mother recalls that moment.
01:39One on the door, one on the door, and one on the door, and one on the door in a room.
01:46So I would say to them, what do you want to do with this?
01:49They said, Osmara, Oscott.
01:51And they started to throw it in and throw it from the fridge.
01:56They said, I want to wear it.
01:57I gave them the jacket to wear it.
01:59It became a mess.
02:00The man is a mess.
02:02This is the jacket.
02:03I'm going to buy it.
02:10Hussein Zemara insists he's done nothing wrong.
02:10But this begins an 18-day nightmare.
02:13Hussein Zemara mentioned that he has done nothing wrong.
02:16No heavy.
02:21Hussein Zemara insists he's done nothing wrong.
02:24But this begins an 18-day nightmare.
02:29Hussein Zemara insists that he's done nothing wrong.
02:31At the age of 15, the life of this boy was also turned upside down.
02:52Fatima Fouz would spend the next 82 days in prison, beginning with an interrogation.
03:01As a 14-year-old, Islam died of the police.
03:07He killed one of them.
03:11He killed me.
03:14He killed me and he killed me.
03:21He killed me.
03:23He killed me.
03:25As a 14-year-old, Islam died.
03:29As a 14-year-old, Islam Dara Yub has also come up against Israel's security services.
03:59These boys are part of the new front line in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
04:07They're among the 700 Palestinian children brought each year before Israel's military court.