(New York Times) Robert Mackey - Seven Israeli soldiers who detained a 5-year-old Palestinian boy for rock-throwing this week in the West Bank city of Hebron have been cleared of any wrongdoing by their superiors, after a review of video of the incident published on Thursday. Eytan Buchman, a spokesman for the Israeli military, said soldiers took the boy to his home, and then, with his parents, to a Palestinian police station. "This kid was throwing stones on the street," Buchman said. "He wasn't arrested. He was escorted to his parents. A huge difference." Buchman added that the army had reviewed the incident after an Israeli rights group publicized the video, and found the soldiers had conducted themselves correctly.
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