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Israel “Systematically” Uses Gaza Children as Human Shields, Rights Group Finds | Truthout (truthout.org)

submitted 3 months ago by Keeponstalin to c/world

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As part of its genocide in Gaza, the military registered by the UN as a violator of children’s human rights is “systematically” detaining and torturing children, according to Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP).

Like adults in Israel’s custody, children told DCIP of how troops beat them bloody; threatened to kill them; humiliated them; deprived them of food; stripped them naked; and sicced dogs on them.

This echoes other reports finding that Israeli troops are, in fact, told by military officials to use Palestinians as human shields — even as Israeli officials spread uncorroborated claims of Hamas forces using civilians as human shields that Israel often uses to justify the killing of thousands of civilians.

A recent investigation by Haaretz found that Israeli units will often dress Palestinians up as Israeli soldiers and make them walk, handcuffed, in front of troops or into tunnels and houses to serve as shields. These Palestinians are specifically selected by Israeli troops for this, presumably so that they can blend in with the Israeli military. Sometimes those who are chosen for this purpose are children.

Military officials as high as the chief of staff are aware of this practice, suggesting that it is not only okay with the military leadership, but condoned. Soldiers are told, the report found, “our lives are more important than their lives.”

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Credit to [email protected] for assembling all of these references from different journals in the post text.

[–] Keeponstalin 9 points 3 months ago

Thanks! I try to link whatever articles in the post text that are linked in the article. The DCIP article referenced wasn't linked in the Truthout article somehow, so I wanted to link that too. It goes into a lot of info about each event and I thought it was important to share along with this article