An Israeli military officer accidentally shot and killed a Palestinian who was being used by IDF troops as a “human shield,” Hamakom Hachi Ham Bagehenom, a Hebrew language magazine, reported on Tuesday.
Using Palestinians as human shields to search buildings and tunnels that may be booby-trapped or contain hiding Hamas militants has been a common practice of the Israeli military.
The report said the incident occurred in August 2024 when the IDF’s Nahal Brigade’s 931st Battalion was in the southern city of Rafah. The Palestinian being used as a human shield was in a building that a commander from the battalion entered.
According to the report, the commander didn’t know the Palestinian was being used by the battalion and opened fire, killing him. An IDF spokesman confirmed the incident to the magazine, claiming that the “case was investigated by the brigade commander. The lessons of the investigation have been implemented into the forces’ activities.”
The Israeli military has used Palestinian civilians held without charge to serve as human shields, including minors. Mohammed Shubeir, a 17-year-old Palestinian, told The New York Times that he was used by the IDF as a human shield in his hometown, Khan Younis, where he was found hiding with his family.
Shubeir said he was forced to walk through the ruins and enter buildings in handcuffs. In one instance, he did find explosives in a building. “The soldiers sent me like a dog to a booby-trapped apartment,” he said. “I thought these would be the last moments of my life.”
Israel and its main backer the US are constantly accusing Hamas of using human shields in Gaza to justify the massive civilian casualties.
Accidental shooting occur in war. It happens.
"The Israeli military has used Palestinian civilians held without charge to serve as human shields, including minors. Mohammed Shubeir, a 17-year-old Palestinian, told The New York Times that he was used by the IDF as a human shield in his hometown, Khan Younis, where he was found hiding with his family."
You're cool with this?
First, the source is unverified. And are you OK with Hamas using the entire population of Gaza as a human shield, including schools and hospitals? Have you spoken out against Hamas, which illegally occupies Gaza, and which is part of the Muslim Brotherhood, which received funding and inspiration from the German government in the 1930s and 1940s?
Of course not.
The intentional murder of children and the ethnic cleansing of millions of people is not something you should be defending, Alexander.
Technically, a 17 year old is not a "child," and in war, you may be shocked to learn that sometimes people tell fibs.
But you never need proof, apparently.
It was more than just a 17 year old, and you know it. Children, including toddlers, are being shot. You're not here in honesty.
A child. Each day reveals a whole nother unimagined category of Zionist evil.
But isn't using human shields what terrorists do?
Are all those children with two closely placed sniper shots to the chest “accidental shootings?”
Was he cleaning his gun with the safety off? If not it ain't no accident. He intentionally shot the unarmed Palestinian, not realizing that said unarmed Palestinian was actively employed as a human shield by his buddies.
I'm guessing you've never been in a war or in combat, or even danger.
War is an ugly business, and urban warfare even more so. One mistake and you are blown to bits; this is why civilians stay out of combat areas.
But Israel works on the basic premise that Hamas wants to destroy them, and demonstrated a passion for killing its people, so they must destroy Hamas.
Hamas should surrender and end the war, but they refuse. Hamas should give up Gaza to the rightful government, the PA, but they refuse. They should give up their weapons and release all hostages, but that isn't happening.
Until then, the war continues.
I served in the US Army in Afghanistan. If I did 1/100th of what you fuckers are doing in Gaza, I’d be locked up for life and for good reason. Unfortunately it looks like the only way any of these war criminals will be brought to justice is if some hero gives them the United Healthcare treatment.
An Israeli military officer accidentally shot and killed a Palestinian who was being used by IDF troops as a “human shield,” Hamakom Hachi Ham Bagehenom, a Hebrew language magazine, reported on Tuesday.
When you are using a human being as a shield it's a fucking disgusting joke to call it an ACCIDENT.
Every day I hear something about the Israeli population, it convinces me they should be evicted and replaced by civilized people, say Palestinians, as an example.
Have Israelis become the Germans as in days of old?!…?!
Just a bunch of animals, as far as I can see.
The colony is going the way of either South Africa or Rhodesia. It looks like the colonists have chosen the latter. . .
Israel is not a "colony", as Jews were the indigenous people. The Arabs were conquerors.
Most Palestinians are Arabs who migrated from neighboring countries. Those in the West Bank have roots in Syria, and those in Gaza were Egyptian, such as Yasser Arafat's father, who was from an Egyptian family. (The Soviets claimed that Arafat was born in Jerusalem, but that was a lie, compounded by the fact that Jerusalem – the major city in the area – has had a Jewish majority since the 1860s).
Currently, Gaza – which was a center of Jewish learning since Roman times – is occupied by Hamas, which stole the territory in a violent coup (the territory is part of the Palestinian Authority, which Hamas is not part of), and Jews were forbidden to go there, on pain of death.
As to the future of Israel, it looks better than many countries, including all of its neighbors. It has a high-tech economy that exceeds $500 billion, and a longer life expectancy than any Arab country.
However, if you are looking for problems to solve – and you are from the US – you should consider the fact that American Blacks have a shorter life expectancy than Arab Israelis (78 vs 77 years). So, if any country resembles South Africa, it is your country. No wonder you want to change the subject and focus on other countries, rather than face the inequity in your own nation.
This is a point, of course, that you won't address.
Yeah, because Eastern Europeans are obviously indigenous to somewhere other than Eastern Europe.
“No wonder you want to change the subject and focus on other countries, rather than face the inequity in your own nation.” On the contrary, I wish my country would do just that and start funding Israel to the tune of $0 per year for forever.
I thought only the Palestinians used their own people as shields, according to Israeli BS. Buy why would they? Wouldn't it make more sense to use the Israeli hostages for that purpose? I guess when the shield was no longer of use, it had to be discarded. That's about the epitome of psychopathic thought, isn't it?
Well, Hamas hides out and uses civilians, because they think the world will see Israel as mean when the civilians are killed, but no one outside of Harvard and Columbia classrooms is falling for it.
Also, is this really a "human shield"? Technically, I think this might be a human mine-sweeper, rather than a shield. Perhaps they are working with the IDF for money, or perhaps not.
Naaaa. I don't believe that, that's just more Zionist lies, and lies are what Zionists are best known for, it's even written as the motto of the Mossad. Nobody believes pro-Israel BS anymore, and wait 'till you witness the backlash events to come. 'The truth will out', is just a force of nature, sometimes it takes longer than other times, but it will happen eventually.
Information in war is notoriously unreliable, and I assume you are not in Gaza, so who knows? Considering that UN members participated in the slaughter of civilians in Israel, they are not entirely reliable.
As for your statement that "lies are what Zionists are best known for," – claiming that an entire group – people who support a homeland for Jews – are "best known for lies" is a bit of a slur.
There are many types of Zionists, including Jews and Christians. Are you saying that they are all liars?
And what about those who support a homeland for Palestinians? How about Hamas? Would you describe them in the same terms, such as when they say they never use hospitals for military purposes, or their claims that Palestinians were the original people in the area, or that Jews never lived in Gaza, and that the Jews never had a kingdom that included the Second Temple that forms the foundation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque?
Please elaborate.
Too bad, since Zionism is about a whole lot more than a homeland. You know that. Don’t play victim again, it doesn’t work anymore after the Zionist slaughter in Gaza, West Bank and now Syria and Lebanon.
You seem to have your own definition of Zionism, which you conflate with the actions by the Israeli government. There are some Zionists who do not support Israel, and there are some Israelis who don't support Zionism. There are also different types of Zionists.
In fact, many of the Israelis who lived near Gaza did so because they wanted to work with the people of Gaza to promote mutual understanding and peace. Some even hired them and helped them get medical care.
There are fewer people like this now, as many were butchered, mutilated, and burned by Hamas.
I never "play victim".
As for the War in Gaza, war is a nasty business. The US killed more than 20,000 civilians in France after the D-Day landings, and more than 600,000 people died in the Syrian Civil War. But I guess that's different because they weren't "Zionists".
This is why Israelis ignore "world opinion". It is meaningless.
The IDF also slaughtered their own people as well as exposed by IDF personnel, forget that one? And, don’t say it never happened, that’s what so many people today say about the big H in Europe. Get a clue, you haven’t a leg to stand on in the big debate here on AW.
War is a nasty business, and people die. That's why it's a bad idea to provoke a war, as Hamas did. All it did was bring suffering to the people of Gaza.
What's the "Big H"? I have no idea what that means.
I express my opinions. If you don't agree, suit yourself.
There usually isn't much of a "debate" on AW; it's just people who don't like Israel saying they don't like Israel. Meanwhile, you haven't offered anything coherent and do not provide any sources for your babbling. Suit yourself.
The ‘holocaust’ is the Big H, which did happen, maybe the numbers were exaggerated for war propaganda, but Israel is using the same denial tactics as those who say the ‘Big H’ never happened; like Palestine never existed, etc.