Translate by عبد الله سعدي Talk about politicsSaid Ibrahim Al-SaeedIn the New York Times' lead article: "This is How the Israeli Army Uses Palestinians as Human Shields"
An investigative article published this morning (Monday) on the front page of the New York Times shows how Israeli army soldiers are using Palestinians as “human shields” during operations in Gaza. The article describes how Palestinian citizens were taken from their homes, forced into besieged buildings or searched. Hamas tunnels to prevent injuryIsraeli army soldiers.
In the article, which is a continuation of the investigation published by the Haaretz newspaper, interviews were conducted with 16 current and former Israeli soldiers and military officials who “were aware of this practice,” as well as three Palestinians who said they were forced to participate in it. One of them, Muhammad Shabir, who was 17 years old at the time, described how he was forced to walk with his hands bound through the ruins of Khan Yunis, in front of Israeli army forces, searching for explosive devices. He was sent, he said, to an apartment that was booby-trapped like a “dog.” His life was in real danger when he noticed wires connected to explosives.
He wrote that one of the detainees had explored the tunnel that was discovered under the UNRA compound where a central communications center for Hamas was discovered. Shabir also describes in the article how, a few days before his release, he was forced to wear an Israeli army uniform and went out wandering the streets, shooting Hamas gunmen. Shoot him and reveal their locations.
For its part, the Israeli army responded to the statements by saying that it strictly prohibits the use of civilians for military purposes, and that it will look into the cases raised in the investigation. The article stated that no material evidence was found of harm to detainees while using them as “human shields.”
The article is accompanied by pictures and stories of Palestinian detainees who, according to them, had to face the risk of death while protected by Israeli soldiers. One of the photos in the article, provided by Breaking the Silence, shows IDF soldiers and Palestinian detainees being sent to a suspicious building in Gaza. The organization is one of The Times's main sources of information for this investigation, providing it with soldiers' testimonies.
The soldiers who described the phenomenon said that it is a "routine and organized" practice, and is carried out in coordination with the Israeli intelligence services. According to them, their team members expressed their opposition to this measure to their leaders, but they tried to justify it by claiming that the detainees were terrorists and not civilians being held without charge.
In the article, the soldiers describe being told that “the lives of terrorists are less valuable than the lives of Israelis,” even though the detainees did not belong to terrorist groups and were later released without charges.
According to the investigation, IDF soldiers in different units usually refer to detainees in the same conditions, but differentiate between them: the term “Wasp” usually means people brought into Gaza by intelligence officers from Israel on short, specific missions or to collaborators who entered Gaza voluntarily in exchange for Reward.
The term "mosquitoes" refers to the most common cases of detainees who were captured in Gaza and transferred directly to the operation without arriving in Israel, sometimes for several days or even weeks. The article quoted one of the soldiers as saying that in both cases, they were all considered worthy of sacrifice. One of the officers told him, “If the tunnel explodes, at least he will die and not one of us.”
The article notes that although international law prohibits the use of civilians as “human shields,” the Israeli military has continued to use the practice in large parts of Gaza, said Professor Michael Schmidt, an expert in military law. This may be a war crime, and Compare it with the "neighbor procedure", which was used in... The Israeli army in the early 2000s, before it was banned by the High Court of Justice.
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