At approximately 10:00 pm on Monday, 13 March 2017, Israeli occupation forces(IOF) arrested three Palestinian children while they were trying to sneak across the eastern separation fence near Nahal Oz crossing eastern Gaza City.

Al Mezan identified their names as follows:

• -- Alaa Jamil Abu Khater, 13;
• -- Makram Mustafa Meqbel, 15, and
• -- Mohammed Mahmoud Abdel Nabi, 16.

They are residents of Jabliya refugee camp. At approximately 2:00 pm on the same day, the IOF released them at Erez crossing.