Report Alleges Israel Used Boy as a Human Shield
According to a UN report, Israeli soldiers used an 11-year-old Palestinian boy as a human shield during the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
From the Associated Press:
The Israeli Defense force ordered the boy to walk in front of soldiers being fired on in the Gaza neighborhood of Tel al-Hawa and enter buildings before them, said the U.N. secretary-general’s envoy for protecting children in armed conflict.
Radhika Coomaraswamy said the incident on Jan. 15, after Israeli tanks had rolled into the neighborhood, was a violation of Israeli and international law.
It was included in a 43-page report published Monday, and was just one of many verified human rights atrocities during the three-week war between Israel and Hamas that ended Jan. 18, she said.
Coomaraswamy accused Israeli soldiers of shooting Palestinian children, bulldozing a home with a woman and child still inside, and shelling a building they had ordered civilians into a day earlier.
Tags: Gaza, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Human Rights, Human Shield, Israel, ISrael Human Shield, Jihad, Palestine, Palestine Human Shield, Palestinian, Radhika Coomaraswamy, Terrorism, Terrorist
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March 23, 2009 at 6:37 am
Alleges? This is not the first!
Here’s a PHOTO!
http://attendingtheworld.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/using-children-as-human-shields/
ATW