Israeli army still using children as human shields in 2010
Defence for Children International | 22 November 2010
One day after an Israeli military court imposed a suspended sentence on two Givati Brigade soldiers for using a nine-year-old boy as a human shield in Gaza, DCI-Palestine has just obtained an affidavit from a 13-year-old boy who reports being used as a human shield on 19 August 2010. This brings to three, the number of human shield cases documented by DCI-Palestine in 2010.
18 February 2010 – Voices From The Occupation (16-year-old girl from Nablus)
16 April 2010 – Voices From The Occupation (14-year-old boy from Beit Ummar)
19 August 2010 – Voices From The Occupation (13-year-old boy from near Nablus)
The practice of using human shields involves forcing civilians to directly assist in military operations or using them to shield an area or troops from attack. Both of these circumstances expose civilians to physical, and sometimes, mortal danger. Civilians are usually threatened and/or physically coerced into performing these tasks, most of the time at gunpoint. The practice is illegal under both international and Israeli domestic law.
In the latest case documented by DCI-Palestine, a 13-year-old boy from a village near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, was beaten and then forced at gunpoint to search and open doors in a house where the army suspected a wanted person might be hiding – Nazzal A. – Voices From The Occupation.
Since April 2004, DCI-Palestine has documented 16 cases involving Palestinian children being used as human shields by the Israeli army. Fifteen of the 16 cases, occurred after the Israeli High Court of Justice ruled the practice to be illegal in October 2005, suggesting that the army is not effectively implementing the Court’s decision, or simply disregarding the Court’s order altogether.
On Sunday, 21 November 2010, two soldiers from the Givati Brigade became the first soldiers to be charged and convicted of using a child as a human shield. The two soldiers were demoted from the rank of staff sergeant to sergeant and each given a three-month suspended prison sentence. DCI-Palestine is of the view that the lenient sentences handed down on Sunday are unlikely to deter the future use of children as human shields – Majed J. – Voices From The Occupation.
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Is anybody surprised at this? ANYBODY???
As long as this criminal Zionist entity exists there will be obscenities such as this…
God Damn Israel and the US military power it relies on.
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Who else in the world does this? Does the US or has it ever?
This issue should hit a raw nerve in mothers worldwide, with the exception of Hillary Clinton, first lady Obama, and women in congress.
But what about Code Pink, and all peace and human rights groups?
DU deformed babies have been kept out of the narrative completely. I want the US kids brought into the public eye as proof of the total indifference to inhumanity that the USA projects remorselessly daily by land, sea, and air; as if it does not matter, for we do not care to take serious issue with it. And therefore, why should we not expect Israel with its hardcore supremacist madness programmed into their heads all their lives, without being critically challenged, which only reinforces that racist or NAZIesque mindset that ossifies in the military and national politics apparently.
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Just know this Bill Mitchell, that our witnessing counts for something…especially in a world where so few are willing.
Take that to the gates with you…you shall enter.
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Look we had mass consciousness raising on ‘Blood Diamonds’ and PETA and other animal rights groups against fur coats.
And so nudity to involved in drawing attention of social issues.
Using children as human shields by criminal bands of occupying forces carrying out acts of Israeli state terrorism in seeking to crush all resistance to their illegal occupation is as the article points out totally criminal.
We know of organ harvesting too. And that pregnant women and little girls were targets of choice for the genocidal minded Zionist.
I would go on, but these horrors are known, and those ‘witnessing’ have escaped me and that can’t because of internet censorship, it is because the confrontations are not taking place.
The lame elections this month did not give voice to the wars, occupations, or the fraudulent pretext of 9/11 on which they are perpetrated.
And if you don’t see women at mothers and the natural protectors of children, then you are a hybridrogue species in a gated mindset of neutered nonsense.
Historically women have been very much in the forefront of revolution, mostly over hungry children at in the Great French Revolution. Those women marched on Versailles, stormed the palace, grabbed the guards by their dicks and disarmed them!
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Well Mitchell, whatever anger you are feeling is rather misplaced in blaming me.
Take that up with your own psyche.
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I did not understand your post in the directed at me, and it seems you returned the favor.
Perhaps we agree that the use of human shields criminal and action in includes strong words and a call for reinforcements from what is presumed to be friendly forces.
I am angry for sure, and not at you, just making the case by raising questions as in ‘who else does this?’ and in essence seeing this as a great women’s issue to rally around and confront Hillary Clinton and her give-away for 20 F-35 fighter-bombers to Israel in return for nothing, and she is the highest ranking cabinet official and women in the country a hardcore war criminal. She deserves the ire that TSA is righteously getting now too.
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“And if you don’t see women at mothers and the natural protectors of children, then you are a hybridrogue species in a gated mindset of neutered nonsense.”~BM
Let’s start over Bill. I was speaking in a spiritual sense in the post directed at you…”Pearly Gates”? Get it?
I am as hard core an enemy of Israel and Zionism as you will ever find.
I consider the US “government” to be nothing but a criminal syndicate, and especially the testosterone hyped females such as Clinton and Albright.
The topic of the article fills me with rage.
If you will note, I made the first post–you might be more observant in the future before lashing out. Aye?
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