“The soldiers at several points fired bullets next to their feet in an effort to terrorize them, perhaps to make them amenable to following orders.
“Every time they shot at us, I instantly poked my back to check if I was still alive,” said Ahmad, recalling the soldiers’ giggles at how scared he and his family were.”
“At other times, a tank would rapidly move towards them, then drift back, less than a meter away from them. Ahmad realized the soldiers were toying with them.
At one point, soldiers picked Ahmad’s brother, Saeed, and tortured him, breaking his jaw. They kicked him in his genitals like they were ‘hitting a football,’ according to Saeed. They beat him so severely that he blacked out at one point.’”
"Israel's Use of Palestinian Children as Human Shields"
Three boys say the IDF used them to shield soldiers from potential harm during an IDF raid on a refugee camp.
"They forced Karam to walk in front of them, open the doors to each room, & enter it before them. While they were walking, one soldier placed his rifle on Karam's right shoulder & fired two shots toward an apartment".
"Israel's Use of Palestinian Children as Human Shields"
Three boys say the IDF used them to shield soldiers from potential harm during an IDF raid on a refugee camp.
"They forced Karam to walk in front of them, open the doors to each room, & enter it before them. While they were walking, one soldier placed his rifle on Karam's right shoulder & fired two shots toward an apartment".
"Israel's Use of Palestinian Children as Human Shields"
Three boys say the IDF used them to shield soldiers from potential harm during an IDF raid on a refugee camp.
"They forced Karam to walk in front of them, open the doors to each room, & enter it before them. While they were walking, one soldier placed his rifle on Karam's right shoulder & fired two shots toward an apartment".
"Survivors of Israel’s ground invasion in northern Gaza tell chilling stories of kidnappings, torture, and the rampant use of civilians as bait and human shields. The world still has no idea how inhumane Israel’s genocidal war really has been."
It's perfectly normal action of the occupying powers to demolish place of worship and people's houses to make sure their lives is as miserable as possible.
@claude_cahun Considering the favt that #Hamas literally abuses #Gaza's population as #HumanShields and literally steals resources from #Hospitals and builds Command Posts below them, that's on them.
Why else do you think the #USNS Mercy or any other #HospitalShip and even #Ambulances of military forces carry no weapons whatsoever?
I seen Gaza all over social media. Ion gon lie I don't no to much bout this. But it cannot be right that Israel are just killing innocent Palestine kids? Why ain't the US calling for a cease fire? Just seems so cruel. #FreePalestine#FreeGaza to save lives ❤️
The current government of #Israel is militant and willing to kill Gaza civilians (and demolish homes of West Bank Palestinians), and it is corrupt. But they are democratically elected.
The current government of #Gaza is militant and willing to kill Israeli civilians and use Gaza civilians as #HumanShields, and it is corrupt. Although it was elected democratically (with a 42% plurality, defeating a divided opposition), it has held power for over a decade by violently blocked further elections.
Israeli civilians are complicit with their government, but only to the extent that they voted for militants.
Gaza civilians are largely innocent of their government; fewer than half were born at the time of the election that brought Hamas to power.
Israel is dedicated to defeating Hamas, even at cost of killing Gaza civilians.
Hamas is dedicated to making Israel look bad, even at cost of getting Gaza civilians killed.