The Mission investigated four incidents in which the Israeli armed forces coerced
Palestinian civilian men at gunpoint to take part in house searches during the military operations
(chap. XIV). The men were blindfolded and handcuffed as they were forced to enter houses
ahead of the Israeli soldiers. In one of the incidents, Israeli soldiers repeatedly forced a man to
enter a house in which Palestinian combatants were hiding. Published testimonies of Israeli
soldiers who took part in the military operations confirm the continuation of this practice, despite
clear orders from Israel’s High Court to the armed forces to put an end to it and repeated public
assurances from the armed forces that the practice had been discontinued. The Mission
concludes that this practice amounts to the use of Palestinian civilians as human shields and is
therefore prohibited by international humanitarian law. It puts the right to life of the civilians at
risk in an arbitrary and unlawful manner and constitutes cruel and inhuman treatment. The use of
human shields also is a war crime. The Palestinian men used as human shields were questioned
under threat of death or injury to extract information about Hamas, Palestinian combatants and
tunnels. This constitutes a further violation of international humanitarian law.
…
The Mission is aware of reports that there was significant resistance from Palestinian
armed groups in the Tal el-Hawa area on the night of 14 January. Information available alleges
that on the night of 14 January Israeli troops had entered buildings on al-Abraj Street, used
human shields to check if there was any presence of enemy combatants or explosive devices and
found none. Reports do not specify the nature, scale or precise location of resistance in Tal
el-Hawa. The Mission notes that in the buildings directly opposite al-Quds hospital on Jami’at
ad-Duwal al-Arabiyah Street there is very little sign of damage to any of the buildings on that
side of the street, and certainly nothing that compares to the damage to the buildings on al-Abraj
Street.
…
The Mission received allegations that in two areas in north Gaza Israeli troops used
Palestinian men as human shields whilst conducting house searches. The Palestinian men were
allegedly forced to enter houses at gunpoint in front of or, in one case, instead of soldiers. The
Mission investigated four cases. One incident took place in the Izbat Abd Rabbo neighbourhood
and another in al-Salam neighbourhood, both east of Jabaliyah, close to the border with Israel.
Two incidents took place in al-Israa neighbourhood, west of Beit Lahia. The Mission visited each
of the locations and interviewed a number of witnesses. In each case, the Mission found the
allegations to be credible.
During the 10-year period, an estimated 7,000 Palestinian children aged 12 to 17, but some as young as nine, had been arrested, interrogated and detained, the U.N. report said. […]. Israeli soldiers had used Palestinian children to enter potentially dangerous buildings before them and to stand in front of military vehicles to deter stone-throwing“. Almost all those using children as human shields and informants have remained unpunished and the soldiers convicted for having forced at gunpoint a nine-year-old child to search bags suspected of containing explosives only received a suspended sentence of three months and were demoted,” it said.
Meanwhile remember when Israel blew up Associated Press office in Gaza while accusing Hamas of using the Associated Press journalists as human shields?
Late Saturday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the building was used by Hamas military intelligence. “It was not an innocent building,” he said. Israel routinely cites a Hamas presence as a reason for targeting buildings. It also accused the group of using journalists as human shields.
Pepperidge farm remembers. Israel is a completely rogue nation behaving way outside the boundaries of international law and civilized humane society. Every other state actors, even the Russians and Ukranians do not behave like this. This is some Liberian warlord genocide shit.
Israel is the only country who had legitimately been documented by the UN to use children as textbook definition of human shield in recent memory
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinian-israel-children/palestinian-children-tortured-used-as-shields-by-israel-u-n-idUSBRE95J0FR20130620
Meanwhile remember when Israel blew up Associated Press office in Gaza while accusing Hamas of using the Associated Press journalists as human shields?
https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-fe452147166f55ba5a9d32e6ba8b53d7
Pepperidge farm remembers. Israel is a completely rogue nation behaving way outside the boundaries of international law and civilized humane society. Every other state actors, even the Russians and Ukranians do not behave like this. This is some Liberian warlord genocide shit.