The way I understand it, the soldiers walked across the street, grabbed a neighbor kid and walked him up there. I've a problem with that, because the next door neighbor might very well not know, or he might have been told not to know on pain of death.
What they (IDF) should have done is use one of the people they had already arrested.
The Iranians and Saudis and Syrians, in Iraq, use this same tactic to get people who inform on foreign insurrgent activity. The idea being that you want to bring all your people back alive after a fight, so why not use the enemy against the enemy?
Worked for Muhammed.
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