Palestinian leaders have accused Israel of fabricating a story about a 14-year-old Palestinian boy who planned to blow himself up.
The Israeli army said he was caught wearing an explosive belt at an army roadblock in the northern West Bank.
The boy, identified as Husam Abdu from Nablus, was shown on TV screens around the world, with an explosive belt strapped to his waist.
The Israeli army said the boy told interrogators that his dispatchers promised that he would have sex with 72 virgins in heaven soon after his death.
"We know for sure this is a fabricated story from A to Z. Would you believe that a 13 or 14-year old would agree to blow up himself in return for a hundred shekels which he would receive after his death?
“It seems to me that the Israelis are bad liars as well,” said Yaqub Shahin, a director-general of the Palestinian Authority ministry of information.
“Their [Israel’s] goal is to besmirch Palestinian childhood so that when they slaughter the children, the world won’t feel sorry for them,” he said.
Arab Knesset member Muhammad Baraka has also voiced “serious doubts” about the veracity of the Israeli narrative.
“I have very serious doubts about the whole story. I can’t give the Israeli army the benefit of the doubt.”
A few weeks ago, another boy from Nablus, Muhammad Kuraan, made headlines when the Israeli army presented him to the media as a child who had been dispatched to blow himself up at an Israeli roadblock.
However, when the boy returned home, he reportedly told his family and relatives “Jews told me to do this or else they would kill me.”
Israel ‘fabricated’ child-bomber story: Israel tries to portray Palestinians as child killers
funny that after the event of sheikh yasin assasination the israeli media was desperate for this story of fake child bombers to hit world headlines guess we now know why!