GAZA August 13. 2024 (Saba) - An investigation by the Zionist newspaper "Haaretz" revealed on Tuesday that the Zionist enemy army uses Palestinian civilians as human shields during its war in the Gaza Strip, with the knowledge of senior officers.
The newspaper reported that the Zionist enemy forces are putting civilians at the forefront of units that conduct inspections of buildings and tunnels. In some cases, the enemy army has used children, women, and the elderly as human shields.
When asked, some soldiers said, "Their lives are more important than the lives of Palestinian civilians and that it is better to stay alive and they die."
Earlier, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor announced that videos published documenting the enemy army's use of Palestinian civilian detainees as human shields and forcing them to explore dangerous combat zones are a model for a systematic policy it implements.
Euro-Med Monitor stated that since the start of the ground operations of the Zionist enemy army at the end of October 2023, dozens of cases have been documented in which Palestinian civilians have been used as human shields, and some of them have been forcibly forced to carry out military actions that pose a direct threat to their lives, including entering buildings or tunnels or searching for possible explosives and tunnels, in addition to detaining others in homes and sites in areas of clashes, which endangers their lives, in violation of the rules of international humanitarian law.
It stressed that the enemy army's use of civilians as human shields in a repeated pattern was not limited to the Gaza Strip, but documented many similar cases in the West Bank, which is an extension of the policy followed by the Zionist army for many years, whether during the rounds of escalation or the repeated incursions into the West Bank.
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resource : Saba
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