On May 27, four Palestinian 12-14
years old girls from the South Hebron hills area villages of Tuba and
Maghayir Al Abeed have been arrested by the Israeli police on the charge
of theft of cherries in a field in which Israeli settlers from Ma'on
settlement are growing several cherry trees.
This grove is situated
close to the place in which the children usually wait an Israeli
military escort in order to come back to home. The escort was
established in 2004 by the Children's Rights Committee of the Knesset
because of the ongoing attacks to the Palestinian children (coming from
the nearby villages of Tuba and Maghayir Al Abeed to the school of At
Tuwani) from Havat Ma'on and Ma'on settlers.