The occupation did not care about their childhood, so it arrested and detained the two children, Ibrahim Abu Ghali (5 years old) and Omar Muhammad Al-Zaben (8 years old), and its soldiers assaulted them after arresting them with their grandfather Ibrahim Abu Ghali, following an attack on his home in the Kafr Dan plain, west of Jenin, during a military operation that resulted in the martyrdom of their grandmother and his elderly wife, Faiza Abu Ghali.

The occupation forces released the two children, who arrived in a state of panic in the Jalameh area after being detained for hours in inhumane conditions. Their faces, as they arrived at the first vehicle they found, showed signs of shame at their condition, and shock and horror at the horror of what they had been subjected to.

After their release, the two children wore plastic bags and T-shirts provided to them by one of the detainees who had been released with them. Throughout their conversation, they were careful to hold the bags and cover their bodies.

With great difficulty, little Khaled regained consciousness and composure, and was unable to hide how affected and shocked he was by what had happened. He told a “Y” reporter: “We heard a lot of banging, and then we saw a drone that flew over our house. I woke up very scared because it kept going up and down every five minutes.” He added, “It was Suhoor time when the army stormed my grandfather Ibrahim’s house. My grandfather, grandmother, and my uncle were there. My grandmother went out to see what was happening and didn’t come back. We didn’t see her and I knew that she had been martyred when they left us.” He continued, “The army asked us to leave the house, and as soon as we left, I saw army patrols standing by the water tank in the garden of the house. They arrested my uncle Ahmed and took him to my uncle Mustafa’s farm and expelled us.” He continued, “The army grabbed me by my blouse and pushed me in front of them. They took us to the patrol and put us in it. As soon as they arrested us, the soldiers started beating me painfully on my back.”

Abu Ghali sighs after feeling severe pain from the beating he was subjected to, and says, “The soldiers were scaring us and they hit the other child, Omar, in the face. They took us to the Jalameh checkpoint, they put us in the cold in a big room, then they took us to a small room, and I saw 10 detainees, the soldiers beat them.” He continues, “I saw one of the soldiers beat a detainee and stomped on his back, and they left us naked with only our underwear on, and then they gave us bags to replace our clothes and left us, and after that I knew that my grandmother was a martyr.”

Omar's case was no different. He said that the soldiers fired at his grandfather's farm for no reason, which led to the martyrdom of his grandmother. He said, "The soldiers started shooting a lot at the house before suhoor. My grandmother Faiza was going out to hear the call to prayer so we could eat suhoor, so they shot her." He added, "The army continued shooting at the house and the farm while we were inside. They flew a plane at us and made us go out into the yard."

The scene didn't end there, according to Omar, as the soldiers forced everyone to take off their clothes. "I felt scared when I saw the army pointing their weapons at our heads. They made us take off all our clothes and let us walk while we were surrounded," he said. "They handcuffed us and made us sit on the ground in the cold for half an hour. Then they took us to the Jalameh checkpoint. We saw fear and terror, and my back hurt from the beating."

Omar, the child, recounts that the soldiers detained them in Jalameh in a place designated for detainees. After his and Khaled's condition worsened due to the cold, the soldiers gave them blankets, while they left the rest of the detainees in a tragic state due to the cold. He says, "I asked them to distribute blankets to all the detainees, but they refused and left them on the floor in the cold. We all remained sitting on the floor without a mattress." He continues, "We remained afraid and thought about my grandmother who was martyred and what they wanted to do to us after the beating and the severe pain in my back. After hours of pain, they left us without clothes. I don't know what happened to my grandfather and uncle who were arrested with us." He continues, "But we got out. I couldn't believe it, but I was ashamed because I wanted to go back to Jenin naked. The army took our clothes and didn't return them."