Police officers stop vehicle on routine check only to find 10-passenger car filled with 38 children who come to Israel as illegal workers, return to territories on weekend

Southern Border Guard officers who stopped a car Thursday on a routine check at the Bedouin city of Rahat were surprised to discover the 10-passenger GMC vehicle filled with 39 people - one driver and 38 children from the West Bank village of Yata.

Police investigations revealed that the driver was taking the children from the Rahat to the Palestinian territories. Thirty-eight children between the ages of 10 and13 stepped out of the car, one by one.

The police said they could not believe their eyes. "It simply didn't end," said one of the officers.

These children are believed to enter Israel illegally on a regular basis in order to work in the south and return home on the weekends.

The driver, a territory resident himself, was arrested and taken in for questioning by the police. "Truth is much stranger than fiction here," one of the traffic police officers told Ynet...