It was reported on Sunday that an Israeli court detained three Egyptian children under the age of 14 in a prison in Beersheba a few days ago, on the pretext that they crossed the border. The lawyer Asmahan Abdul Hadi pleaded for one of the children on Sunday, but the judge refused to release the children, and extended their period of custody by a number of days. The Israeli forces arrested the Egyptian children just metres from the nearby Egyptian border, not far from Rafah. Instead of returning them to their country, they dragged them to prison in order to prosecute them in court. Israel is using the law of 1954, which concerns the infiltration of "the enemy state". Despite the signing of a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel in 1978, Israel did not modify the law. In contrast, the law in Egypt states that if Israeli infiltrators are arrested, they will be sent back to the Israeli border, and will not be brought to trial. It is shocking to note that the case in question involves young children.