The Jerusalem Magistrates Court rejected the latest police request to extend the custody of two youths from Tapuach who strayed into an Arab village and were forced to barricade themselves in a house, with the Arab residents inside, in order to save themselves from a mob wishing to lynch them. The army used tanks in order to rescue them. The police wish to charge them not only with entering Area A, which the boys claim they did by mistake on their way to Jerusalem by foot, but also with \"making threats\" and \"trespassing.\" The local army commander said they acted wisely in entering the house, as otherwise they were likely to have been lynched. The judge instructed the two youths to coordinate their hikes with the army from now on.