Family: Boy Bomber “Brainwashed”
The family of a Palestinian boy sent into Israel last week with a pipe bomb, apparently by the Al Aqsa Martyres Brigade, spoke out against his dispatchers, complaining that they “brainwashed” the young boy. (The boy was stopped at a checkpoint by IDF troops and taken into custody.)
“I hope that he will come back home,” [the boy’s father] added. “He’s a child; he can’t differentiate between good and bad. And he and others like him were brainwashed. I don’t know what they were promising them or telling them – they didn’t know what they were going to do and this is what happened with him.”
… His wife, Dalal, was far more critical of the dispatchers. “They are criminals,” she complained. “They are not human beings. This is a crime – they have no feeling, no religion. They don’t fear God. He’s just a child. If he was a child from a rich family they would not have sent him there. But because he is poor and he’s from the refugee camp they play with his head. I hope that God will avenge this.” …The one who sent him is an adult and he probably has children – why did he not send his own children? His children are dear to him, but other people’s children don’t matter.”
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