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How Israel’s Army Uses Palestinians as Human Shields in Gaza (www.nytimes.com)
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Israeli soldiers and Palestinian former detainees say troops have regularly forced captured Gazans to carry out life-threatening tasks, including inside Hamas tunnels.

An investigation by The New York Times found that Israeli soldiers and intelligence agents, throughout the war in Gaza, have regularly forced captured Palestinians . . . to conduct life-threatening reconnaissance missions to avoid putting Israeli soldiers at risk on the battlefield.

While the extent and scale of such operations are unknown, the practice, illegal under both Israeli and international law, has been used by at least 11 squads in five cities in Gaza, often with the involvement of officers from Israeli intelligence agencies.

Palestinian detainees have been coerced to explore places in Gaza where the Israeli military believes that Hamas militants have prepared an ambush or a booby trap. The practice has gradually become more widespread since the start of the war last October.

Detainees have been forced to scout and film inside tunnel networks where soldiers believed fighters were still hiding. They have entered buildings rigged with mines to find hidden explosives. They have been told to pick up or move objects like generators and water tanks that Israeli soldiers feared concealed tunnel entrances or booby traps.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is a long standing practice by the IDF that goes back to at least 1967.

Since the beginning of the occupation in 1967, Israeli security forces have repeatedly used Palestinians in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip as human shields, ordering them to perform military tasks that risked their lives. As part of this policy, soldiers have ordered Palestinian civilians to remove suspicious objects from roads, to tell people to come out of their homes so the military can arrest them, to stand in front of soldiers while the latter shoot from behind them, and more. The Palestinian civilians were chosen at random for these tasks, and could not refuse the demand placed on them by armed soldiers.

"[Israel's] soldiers have used Palestinian children to enter potentially dangerous buildings ahead of them and to stand in front of military vehicles in order to stop the throwing of stones against those vehicles," the committee writes in the report, citing the U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundemental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism

Military officials as high as the chief of staff are aware of this practice, suggesting that it is not only okay with the military leadership, but condoned. Soldiers are told, the report found, “our lives are more important than their lives.”

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I wish I could say I was surprised. All I can say is that I hope this opens a few more peoples' eyes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The surprising part is an imperial mouthpiece writing about it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Look how short a time it took to dash your hopes right here on Lemmy.

Sigh.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nah, my hopes are fine. It's not the dedicated pro-genocide types that need to be reached. It's the centrists who couldn't find Israel on a map who are the ones who need their eyes opened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the practice, illegal under both Israeli and international law

I am surprised. It's one thing to flout international law (that perhaps they don't agree with from the very beginning) but to ignore their own laws?

This is outrageous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately, they've been doing this sort of thing for years. Sometimes the left-wing papers in Israel kick up enough dust that the IDF promises to review it and then does nothing, but more often it just happens.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Good point.