Israeli settlers kidnapped and abused two 15-year-old Palestinian boys in the occupied West Bank earlier this week, the UN says.
In a “Humanitarian Situation Update” on Thursday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the boys were assaulted as they were herding sheep around the suburb of Irtas south of Bethlehem on August 12.
The settlers put knives on the boys’ necks and took them to their settlement outpost, where they beat them, broke their legs, and urinated on them, according to the report. They then put the boys in a vehicle and threw them in open land near Irtas.
Other Palestinians found them there and called an ambulance, which took them to a hospital for treatment.