Shock and Awe: CNN Claims IDF Soldier Confirmed Jews Using Palestinians as Human Shields

“He told me to take them. In the next attack, use them as a human shield.”

An IDF soldier and five former Palestinian detainees tell CNN that the Israeli military has used civilians as human shields in Gaza, as @JDiamond1 reports. pic.twitter.com/o49EZNtTXS

— Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) October 24, 2024

The Jews are doing a total “shock and awe” campaign, not only on the Arabs, but on white people. You’re supposed to be so shocked by their behavior that you become either desensitized or so psychologically and emotionally disturbed that you just can’t even think about it anymore.

That’s why they show the film of them doing all of these atrocities and issue public statements about their atrocities. It is also why the Western media reports on some of this stuff (after spending decades never reporting on it at all). It’s not totally clear the extent to which the strategy is working, but it is undoubtedly a part of a definite strategy.

CNN:

The Israeli military has forced Palestinians to enter potentially booby-trapped houses and tunnels in Gaza to avoid putting its troops in harm’s way, according to an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier and five former detainees who said they were victims of the practice.

The soldier, who said his unit held two Palestinian prisoners for the explicit purpose of using them as human shields to probe dangerous places, said the practice was prevalent among Israeli units in Gaza.

“We told them to enter the building before us,” he explained. “If there are any booby traps, they will explode and not us.”

It was so common in the Israeli military that it had a name: “mosquito protocol.”

(A military protocol doesn’t have to be super common in order to have a name. I think this is very common, I’m just noting the poor quality of reporting.)

The exact scale and scope of the practice by the Israeli military is not known. But the testimony of both the soldier and five civilians shows that it was widespread across the territory: in northern Gaza, Gaza City, Khan Younis, and Rafah.

The soldier explained that, at first, his unit, which at the time was in northern Gaza, used standardized procedures before entering a suspect building: sending in a dog or punching a hole through its side with a tank shell or an armored bulldozer.

But one day this spring, the soldier said an intelligence officer showed up with two Palestinian detainees – a 16-year-old boy and 20-year-old man – and told the troops to use them as human shields before entering buildings. The intelligence officer claimed they were connected to Hamas.

When he questioned the practice, the soldier said one of his commanders told him, “‘It’s better that the Palestinian will explode and not our soldiers.’”

To be fair, that sentiment is standard among militaries. It’s simply that no one is regulating anything the Jews are doing, so they’ve become out of control.

“It’s quite shocking, but after a few months in Gaza you [tend not to] think clearly,” the soldier said. “You’re just tired. Obviously, I prefer that my soldiers live. But, you know, that’s not how the world works.”

The soldier said that he and his comrades refused to carry on with the practice after two days and confronted their senior commander about it. Their commander, who first told them not to “think about international law,” saying that their own lives were “more important,” ultimately relented, releasing the two Palestinians, the soldier said.

The fact that they were released, he said, made it clear to him that they had no affiliation with Hamas, “that they are not terrorists.”

Everyone gets released. They capture and torture all kinds of people and release them.

CNN was connected with the soldier by Breaking the Silence, an organization that provides a forum for Israeli soldiers to speak out and verifies their testimony.

Breaking the Silence provided CNN with three photos depicting the Israeli military using Palestinians as human shields in Gaza. One haunting photograph shows two soldiers urging a civilian forward in a scene of devastation in northern Gaza. In a second, two civilians used as human shields sit bound and blindfolded. A third shows a soldier guarding a bound civilian.

Interviews with five Palestinian former detainees in Gaza tally with the soldier’s account. All describe being captured by Israeli troops and forced to enter potentially dangerous places ahead of the military.

The Jews at CNN are clearly working with the Israeli Jews in order to formulate narratives. Obviously, that is the case.

So when you have these atrocity stories, it’s clearly either a “shock and awe” campaign against the Western public, or it is to cover up much worse atrocities. Frankly, the bombings of random groups of civilians are much worse than human shields.

Using human shields is brutal and a violation of international law, but it’s also a practical matter. Bombing refugee camps is just terrorism and mass murder, with the goal of ethnically cleansing the area.

Al Jazeera has uncovered evidence that the Israeli military is using Palestinian civilians as human shields in Gaza.

Watch this excerpt from our @AJIunit investigation. pic.twitter.com/LlVqp4NOJQ

— Al Jazeera Investigations (@AJIunit) October 22, 2024