Israeli troops used elderly Gazans as human shields 2025

Officials inside the Biden ... to potentially protect themselves in Gaza. Washington's collection of its own evidence on the subject has not been previously reported....

Israel’s military says it prohibits using civilians as shields, a practice it has long accused Hamas of using

The two Israeli soldiers who spoke to the AP – and a third who provided testimony to Breaking the Silence – said commanders were aware of the use of human shields and tolerated it, with some giving orders to do so.

The IDF said that the use of human ... would be reviewed. “The orders and directives of the IDF prohibit the use of Gazan civilians captured in the field for military missions that endanger them,” a spokesperson ...

For two weeks in late July and early August, said Mohammed Saad, 20, he and two other Palestinian men were forced by an Israeli army unit in Gaza to enter buildings feared to contain explosives and photograph every inch before troops were given the all clear to enter.

وتتقاطع هذه المعطيات مع تحقيق نشرته صحيفة هآرتس الإسرائيلية، أكد استخدام الفلسطينيين، بمن فيهم أطفال ومسنون، لتمشيط الأنفاق والمباني، والأخطر في هذا التحقيق هو تأكيده أن هذه الممارسات تتم بعلم كبار الضباط وعلى رأسهم رئيس الأركان السابق هرتسي هاليفي، حيث برر الجنود ذلك بقولهم "حياتنا أهم من حياة الفلسطينيين، ومن الأفضل أن نستخدمهم كدروع بشرية".

يقول 5 فلسطينيين، جميعهم مدنيون، إن الجيش الإسرائيلي احتجزهم واستخدمهم كدروع بشرية في غزة.

وخلال تلك الفترة، قال شبير إن الجنود استخدموه درعاً بشرياً. وقال شبير، الذي كان يبلغ من العمر آنذاك 17 عاماً، للصحيفة إنه أُرغم على السير ...

It added that the “conduct of the forces in the video” did not “conform to the values” of the military and that the incident would be investigated. However, as Perugini observes, the very reason why the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes in Gaza is because legal experts doubt Israel’s ability to investigate itself. Despite vast evidence, the question of whether the military will be launching a crackdown aimed at banishing the apparently systematic practice is moot.

Israeli army forced elderly man to scout buildings with an explosive cord tied around his neck, before he was later shot dead along with his wife.

Shortly after the soldiers released him and ordered him to flee with his wife, they were both shot dead by soldiers in another battalion. ... Haaretz: In Gaza, Almost Every IDF Platoon Keeps a Human Shield, a Sub-army of Palestinian Slaves (2025)

Human shields in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict refers to tactics employed in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict where non-combatants are placed in the line of fire to prevent military objectives from being targeted without harming the non-combatant. The accusation of the use of human shields ...