An Israeli court has handed down suspended jail sentences to two soldiers who forced a nine-year-old Palestinian boy to search for suspected booby traps on their behalf during the Israeli assault on Gaza. The ruling meant that the troops would go free but be subject to a minimum three-month stint in the military stockade should they commit another crime. The Palestinian boy, Majid Rabah, said he was disappointed by the sentence.

Majid Rabah: “It is an unfair ruling. If an Israeli child was exposed to the same thing, the whole world would have turned against us, but when it was against a Palestinian child, nothing happens.”