The post [Jalis] is above Kiryat Arba, and you get there on a road that runs along the outskirts of a Palestinian neighborhood, and the pizza delivery guy would take that route on the road up to us. And one time when we ordered pizza, when he arrived, he told us that stones were thrown at him on the way. Of course the whole post jumped [to its feet]. Obviously by the time that happened, a few minutes had passed. Meaning, be the time he told us about where the incident was, and by the time we reached the site, they caught a few children who were in the area and tried to frighten them. They put them up against the wall and threw stun grenades.

At them? Next to them, to intimidate the children. Because the talk is that if we bring them to the police, nothing will come of it, and these incidents will continue. Someone there decided that it wasn’t enough. Right at the bend there’s a Palestinian shop, a small grocery shop of sorts, one meter by one meter, and they took them (the children), put them in the shop, and threw a [tear] gas grenade inside. Fortunately, they (the soldiers) didn’t succeed, they tried to shut the door, but didn’t succeed.

The soldiers? Yes, and the children ran out of the shop, of course. And that’s it, that was the end of the incident more or less. As far as I know, it eventually led to a military police investigation. Nothing happened to the commander who oversaw the incident.

And what was the goal? What did they want to get from them? To deter. To somehow try to prevent the incident from happening again.

Were they the kids who threw the stones? There’s no way of knowing. You show up ten minutes after the incident. I mean, it’s on the way to the post, it’s about 400 meters below. Say they threw [stones] at the delivery guy, by the time he arrives, tells the base security guard, the base security guard informs the operations room, and the operations room alerts the force. We’re talking at least around seven minutes from when it happened. There’s no way of knowing if these are the children who did it.

So who are these children? Where were they caught? There. In other words, they were at the wrong time at the wrong place. It might be them, and it might not be. You can’t know for certain. I don’t think it’s an official position, but it was some sort of effort to prevent the incident from reoccurring.

Of stone throwing. Yes, of stone throwing, yes.

I don’t know how it was at the time, but I know that today there’s a system of cameras around Hebron, on which you often see kids, kids are caught throwing stones on camera and then you can come even a few days later. I don’t remember such a thing. I remember that no one talked about anything like that either. I mean, the talk that comes from higher ranks, probably from the Company Commander down, is, “No one throws stones in my area,” and then everyone in turn interprets the implications.