here is a small slice of what life is like for palestinians in their former, and still homeland;

Earlier this month Palestinians in the occupied West Bank’s South Hebron Hills made headlines, after a video was published of Israeli soldiers arresting five young Palestinian children, all between the ages of 8 and 13.

The video, which showed a large group of armed soldiers detaining the frightened young boys, was filmed by a field researcher with Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, and went viral on social media.

Human rights organizations and activists from around the world condemned the Israeli military’s handling of the boys, claiming that they were wrongfully detained while picking wild herbs and vegetables in a mountainous area close to an illegal Israeli settlement.

The Palestinian man who filmed the incident, Nasr Nawaja’a, along with other field researchers and B’Tselem staffers were accused by some Israeli officials of “staging” the whole incident, going so far as to say that B’Tselem “sent [the] kids to commit a crime” in order to “entrap unsuspecting journalists to spread lies about [Israel].”...........read more....