غير أن إسرائيل قررت منذ بداية أحداث أيلول/سبتمبر 2000، ألا تعتبر حالات الأطفال الذين يقذفون الحجارة قضايا سياسية أو أمنية، وإنما سيُعتبرون مجرمين عاديين، ولذا جرى جمعهم مع الأحداث الآخرين - العرب واليهود - المسجونين في قضايا جنائية”.
At that prison, a section has been prepared for Palestinian children whom we call political or security prisoners because they were convicted in security cases; however, since the beginning of the events of September 2000, Israel has decided that children who throw stones should not be considered as political or security cases but rather as ordinary criminal cases; that is why those minors were grouped with other minors — Arabs and Jews who are criminal prisoners.”