(Jerusalem Post) Melanie Lidman - The Knesset Committee on the Rights of the Child on Monday discussed the issue of Arab minors throwing rocks at cars in east Jerusalem. The meeting was organized after an incident on Friday when a car driven by a Jew lightly injured two Arab children who had thrown rocks at his car. "We don't want to see any children injured, period," said committee head Danny Danon. "But we also don't want to see children involved in negative activities." In the past six months, the police have arrested 76 people for rock throwing incidents in Jerusalem. Thirty were youth, between the ages of 12-18, and 46 were adults. 17 youth and 10 adults were served with indictments. Jewish residents from east Jerusalem neighborhoods noted that every day for the past two weeks, groups of kids had been at the main intersection at Ras-al-Amud, near the Mount of Olives cemetery, throwing rocks at passing cars for the entire day.
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