International clamour is growing over Israel’s arrest of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy at his home in occupied East Jerusalem earlier this month. In the early hours of 18 October, a dozen Israeli soldiers and secret service agents stormed the family home of Shadi Khoury in the city’s Beit Hanina neighbourhood. The soldiers made a beeline for the teenager, beating, blindfolding and handcuffing him before taking him away, leaving a trail of his blood on the floors of their home, according to his family. Israel, a prolific jailer of Palestinian children, has yet to give a reason for Khoury’s arre…