Israeli forces stop school bus for 2 hours

 NABLUS:  Israeli forces held a children's school bus on the main road leading from Nablus for two hours late on Monday 6th April claiming one of the children had thrown a stone at Jewish settlers from the bus. A Palestinian Authority liaison official in Nablus, Usama Abu Arab, said that Israeli forces stopped the bus, carrying children between the ages of 10 and 12, along the main road between Nablus and the Israeli  'settlement' of Yitzhar. The bus was returning to Ramallah from a school trip. The children are students at Shuhadaa Silwad school in Ramallah. Abu Arab said that the bus was released after two hours. An Israeli army spokeswoman confirmed that Israeli forces had stopped a bus because rocks were allegedly "hurled" by people on board, although she had "no information about (the stone throwers) being children." She said there were no injuries or arrests. Asked why there had been no arrests when Israeli forces claimed rocks had been hurled, she said: "Every case is dealt with differently... This case was dealt with as it was meant to be." Israeli authorities regularly detain Palestinians for alleged stone throwing incidents. Last March marked two years that five boys from the northern West-Bank village of Hares have been held under administrative detention over such allegations. Despite heavily contested evidence, the boys, aged 16 to 17 at the time of their arrest, each faces 20 charges of attempted murder and potential life imprisonment for  - allegedly -  throwing stones.
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