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JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli police raided a house in East Jerusalem late Thursday carrying a detention order for a four-year-old Palestinian boy, a neighborhood information center said.

According to Wadi Hilweh information center, several Israeli police officers raided the house of Zein al-Majed in the al-Saediya neighborhood in Jerusalem's Old City.

The police said they had a detention order of al-Majed's four-year-old son, Muhammad, the center said.

After forcing al-Majed to wake his son up, the police officers reportedly decided not to arrest the boy when they saw him.

The center said that an Israeli police officer questioned al-Majed about his relatives, accusing them of injuring an "Israeli settler."

Police threatened to return and arrest four-year-old Muhammad if they discovered any charge against him during investigations.

Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Ma'an he was unfamiliar with the incident, but said that four Palestinians carrying Israeli citizenship were detained Thursday as part of an investigation into a violent incident.

Rosenfeld said the four were suspected of throwing stones at an Israeli vehicle near the Sur Baher neighborhood of Jerusalem.

The stone-throwing incident injured a three-year-old Israeli baby, he said.

He added that the four detainees were between the ages of 15 and 17.

A March report by UNICEF entitled "Children in Israeli Military Detention" said Israel was the only country in the world where children were systematically tried in military courts and gave evidence of practices it said were "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment."

"Ill-treatment of Palestinian children in the Israeli military detention system appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalized," it concluded, outlining 38 recommendations.

Over the past decade, Israeli forces have arrested, interrogated and prosecuted around 7,000 children between 12 and 17, mostly boys, UNICEF found, noting the rate was equivalent to "an average of two children each day."