Jews Still Using Palestinian Civilians as Human Shields in Violation of Geneva Conventions

Elvis Dunderhoff October 22, 2024

The IDF is the world’s most moral military.

Human shield are defining aspects of military morality. Just ask the other really moral and Jewish military, the Ukraine.

The Guardian:

After they burned down his family home in northern Gaza, Israeli troops separated Ramez al-Skafi from his family and detained him. They had a particular job in mind for him, he said.

For the next 11 days in early July, the 30-year-old Palestinian said he was sent into one house after another in his home district, Shuja’iya, watched by his Israeli military minders. According to the account he gave the Guardian, they turned him into a human shield against booby-traps and Hamas gunmen.

“I tried to resist their proposal, but they started beating me and the officer told me it was not my choice to make and that I have to do whatever they want,” Skafi said. “He told me that my work would be searching the houses and telling them information about the homeowners. After some extreme pressure, I was left no choice.

“The next day I was told to go out on patrol with the Israeli soldiers, and I was very scared because of the tanks in front of me and the planes in the sky above me,” he continued. “When [the minders] noticed my fear, they assured me: ‘They know you are with us.’”

Skafi was one of three Palestinians interviewed by the Guardian who said they had been used by units of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), sent far ahead of Israeli soldiers into unexplored houses and tunnels in Gaza. According to whistleblowers who spoke to the dissident veterans’ group Breaking The Silence (BTS), the practice is widespread.

The forcible use of Palestinian detainees to enter houses and tunnels in Gaza first came into public view in footage broadcast by Al Jazeera television in June and July. An investigation by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in August gathered testimony from Israeli soldiers who said the Palestinians used as shields were known as “shawish”, a word of Turkish origin meaning “sergeant”. The soldiers suggested that it was an institutionalised tactic approved by senior officers.

“It’s done with the knowledge of the brigade commander, at the least,” a conscript in a combat unit said.

The use of prisoners as human shields is a clear violation of the Geneva conventions and is expressly prohibited under Israeli law. The IDF has denied it employs the “shawish” tactic.

“The orders and directives of the IDF prohibit the use of Gazan civilians captured in the field for military missions that endanger them. The protocols and orders have been clarified to the troops on the ground,” the IDF said in a statement, adding that the reported claims had been “forwarded to be examined by the relevant authorities”.

The testimony gathered by the Guardian from former Palestinian detainees is largely consistent with the reporting by Al Jazeera and Haaretz.

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