I didn't comment because I wondered how a child could hang out with 4 men not related to him and no one in his family know. But it never occurred to me he lied. At least the illegal Palestinians are being sent out of Israel.

The boy, and his parents, should be charged for the time and effort spent by the police. He should also be forced to apologize to the accused me before they leave the country. That kid and his family need professional help!

must be deeply disturb. Where does an 11 years old get such ideas from? I would investigate him and his surroundings. Who set the boy up to it? He should be punished harshly. Every fake accusation makes it more difficult for real victims to come to the fore. What a nightmare for the four innocent men.

Normally kids don't make up stories like this. I am extremely concerned that he has changed his story due to family pressure - especially IF this is a regular Bnei Brak family. The parents may stupidly be worrying about the family name. I want this boy to get a full psychological assessment to assertain whether he was lying or not

The family just wanted this to go away and not put their son through an embarrassing trial. 11 year olds just don't make up stories like that.

.... I feel so alone, so cold ..... hello? ..... anybody? .... more seriously, quite a revelation when reading the talkbacks of the original report ... you guys really are something else ... But of course I do feel a little bit the same with regards to applying the ultimate penalty to such individuals (regardless of race, religion, whatever) apart for the fact that we know of many occasions when the wrong person was convicted of a heinous crime and the problem with death penalty is its ... irreversibility .... anyhoo .... I guess nobody will read this anyway .. :)

He should really receive a punishment for this. An 11-year old is old enough to understand that falsely accusing people of rape (of an 11-year old) is a VERY BAD THING to do.

He is clearly not a normal 11 year old - his actions scream for help and I hope someone is listening to him. No normal child would come up with such a horrific story unless there was abuse somewhere. He made up being raped for sweets, money and toys? - does that sound normal? It's a cry for help and I pray that he gets it - poor kid. I'm also glad those four were innocent.

11 year old childen don't understand enough about sexuality to cry rape. Someone is covering up something. Someone did something to this boy. Maybe not the accused, but someone did.

"before they leave the country" Helen since when is the "West Bank" not in Israel?

So this kid needs some serious counseling. But again we have proof positive of Israel's excellent system of justice. Take this case, clearly the police interviewed the Arabs, and must have believed their story, at least enough to question the boy again. They proved the boy lied and freed the Arab suspects. Now let's reverse the situation, what if the boy had been an Arab, the suspects, 4 Jewish men between the ages of 24-27, jut like this case. Would justice have prevailed. Would the Jewish men have been freed or would a mob have rushed the police station and lynched these men? To me that's the difference, I believe the Arabs would have rushed to judgment, and taken the law into their hands and killed these emn in a public way, something that has never happened in Israel, But in fact has happened in the Arab territories. The Bottom Line: That is the key difference between the two people's, and culture's.

Exactly, something smells very fishy here. You could be right, you could be wrong ! will we ever know the truth?

as long as there are honest people in the israeli police and idf, there is hope for the israeli people i am glad the israeli police didnt listen to the israeli right wing and conducted themselves in a professional matter

as some of the talkbackers have suggested, the palestinian men may be innocent but there is a strong possibility that someone may have abused this boy, unfortunately statistics prove that most abusers are known to the victim question the parents,uncles,neighbours etc someone coached this boy to lie, and i am guessing the person is the abuser

why you hate me on Wednesday ? i don't know you but i do NOT hate you anyway. May god forgive you ..... i didn't write my name cuz I want you to read my post before censoring it , but I am sure you know who i am .

as you usually do if they don't have one, you would have no need to blur his face.

This boy needs help. He could have made it up. Someone closer to him, like a relative, could be the culprit and he deflects it by accusing strangers.

I don't believe it. These four had political connections or their families have a lot of money. Thats how things work in Israel.

ynet editor, are you hate my name that much????

they have been released back to wherever in the PA they came from, is that correct?

Care to eat your words? Would you like me to recount for you the endless number of times that little ersatz "Palestinian" boys claimed to walking innocently down the street ..... only to have had it conclusively proven that they were in fact criminally throwing boulders at cars? Hmm? Would you like that? Or would you simply prefer that I refer you to the circumstances of Bradley Manning or a few detainees in Guantanamo? How about, say, the Scottsboro case, when a handful of innocent black men in Alabama were almost executed because a white woman -- a white WASP woman -- claimed they had raped her .... only to have subsequently discovered she lied? More currently, I suppose we could look at all those death row DNA exonerations of innocent people who were convicted on -- lies. Shall we review some of those? You live in a glass house, sea cur. Best not throw stones.

1. Enemas don't leave burn marks. 2. Enemas are not commonly used these days. You are given something to drink. 3. Did a physical examination reveal evidence of sexual abuse?

You need to follow your hunch read rotter.net

... In the Israeli justice system 98% of arrests/indictments end up with a guilty verdict or a guilty plea. This is a shocking and horrible statistic for a democracy. When you hear Arabs say words like "We don't even know the boy," the message imlplies "and we certainly didn't rape him" - a concept which is so anathema in Arab society it is hard to express. Clearly these suspects understood the gravity of their arrest and were ready to be as frank as possible. They could easily have been coerced into a plea bargain that would have resulted in jail time and some form of admission of guilt. They were spared. Others are not so fortunate. It is good to see that justice was served in this case, and I hope it stands as an example regardless of the ethnicity of the accuser or the accused and that precautions are taken to protect the innocent at all costs.

orning... you clown...

thanks for the laugh...