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Article: Four moshav and kibbutz residents held in torture of Palestinian youths
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- Jerusalem Post
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- July 11, 1996
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BILL HUTMAN
Jerusalem Post
07-11-1996
FOUR Tanachim-area kibbutz and moshav residents have been arrested for allegedly tying up and torturing two Palestinian youths they claim stole tomatoes from their fields, police said yesterday.
The suspects in the incident, which took place Monday, are a 22-year-old resident of Kibbutz Givat Oz, and a man, 40, and two 17-year-olds from Moshav Mei-Ami. They allegedly burned cigarettes on the youths, 10- and 13-year-old brothers from Zububa village, north of Jenin. They then tore off their clothes with a knife,and sent them away naked from a storage hut in the fields of Moshav Mele'a, where they were held for about 90 minutes.
"When I took the boy back ...