By Mohammad Ahmad, IOL’s Palestine Correspondent

AL KHALIL (HEBRON), January 1 (IslamOnline) – "Islamic ethics are the reason", this is the response a Palestinian man gave to the Israeli occupation forces when they asked him why he returned a lost Israeli child to his family.

The story was published in the weekly Israeli magazine 'Kul Huzman' on Sunday, December 29.

A few days ago, Ismael Abu Hedayet saw a lost child, Nahom, 6, in his neighborhood and when he started talking to the child in Arabic the child did not understand him. The child even refused to eat or drink initially.

However, Abu Hedayet said after he tried to speak to the child and ask him about his name, the child eased up and he was comforted by the man who said that he will take him to his family.

"When I offered him food again, he said he only wanted to drink, said Abu Hedayet. He then took the child to the nearby Israeli forces who were guarding the settlement in which the child lives.

Abu Hedayet said that initially the soldiers were scared, but two days after the incident, he was surprised to see reporters of the magazine asking him for an interview and relaying to him the regards of the child's family.

He added that he told them that any Muslim resident would have acted in the same way because these are the ethics of Islam and said that this has nothing to do with what the Israeli forces are doing to the Palestinian children on a daily basis.

Abu Hedayet asked the Israel reporter: "What would your Prime minister do if he found a Palestinian child?"