We’ve read and heard about Hamas using Palestinians as human shields. But today I read on Laila El-Haddad’s blog that the Israeli army is using Palestinian civilians as human shields too:

My father went on to describe accounts of Palestinians being used as human shields-by the Israelis. The Israeli military has been forcing families out of their homes and making them scope out buildings and rooms for the army to enter and for their snipers to nest in. It is a practice they have used before-in Rafah, where i personally reported on it during Operation Rainbow in 2004, in Jenin, and in Nablus in 2007 (where a young girl and boy were abused) . Btselem has said that “Israeli soldiers routinely used Palestinian civilians as human shields by forcing them to carry out life-threatening military tasks”, despite an Israeli High Court Order prohibiting the practice.

Journalists must be allowed free access. We need reporting from Gaza.

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