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palestinechronicle.com/uploads/1240951232human_shield_boy_soldiers.jpg
electronicintifada.net/artman2/uploads/1/human-shield-bethlehem-483_002.jpg
Nothing like using biased source (Palestine Chronicle?). This is what the 2009 report the State Department says:
"The law, High Court rulings, and an IDF order prohibit Israeli forces from using “human shields,” but the prohibition reportedly was not always observed. When complaints are registered, according to the MOJ, the Investigative Military Police (IMP) open investigations.
According to Amnesty International, Israeli soldiers used civilians, including children, as human shields, endangering their lives by forcing them to remain in or near houses which they took over and used as military positions. Amnesty International also reported that some were forced to carry out dangerous tasks such as inspecting properties. At year’s end the IDF was investigating alleged use of human shields, including in Jabaliya and Beit Lahiya.
According to Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs July report, Hamas used human shields by hiding behind civilian facilities and endangering civilians, including women and children by using them to protect military sites from IDF attack.
In 2008 one human shield complaint against the IDF was submitted; an investigation followed. There was no information concerning any disciplinary action taken. After a 2007 complaint about use of a human shield caught on television, there was no information on what punishment the IDF personnel received. "
If the Israelis did use human shields, and I am not saying they did not, they are breaking the law of their own country. But that does not make it official policy, as it is official policy with Hamas. That is a big difference.
If Israel did use human shield, then yes, of course I condemn it. Do you condemn Hamas for using human shields, actually building their bunkers underneath hospitals?
I’m still waiting for the other links.