OFER PRISON, West Bank (Reuters) - A 14-year-old boy with dual U.S.-Palestinian citizenship went before an Israeli military court on Thursday accused of throwing stones at Israeli cars in the occupied West Bank.
The case has cast a spotlight on the hundreds of Palestinian minors detained by the Israeli military for stone-throwing. Human rights groups have condemned such jailings. Israel's military says the age of detainees is irrelevant when set against the fact that mass stone-throwing can endanger life.
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