{"id":4337,"date":"2025-01-09T10:34:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T10:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/?p=4337"},"modified":"2025-01-09T10:34:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T10:34:48","slug":"israeli-cmdr-killed-palestinian-used-as-human-shield-in-gaza-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/4337.html","title":{"rendered":"Israeli cmdr killed Palestinian used as human shield in Gaza: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Israeli military commander shot dead a Palestinian man who had been\u00a0used as a human shield<\/a>\u00a0in Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza, Israeli media reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0The Hottest Place in Hell<\/em>, an independent investigative journalism website, the Palestinian man was compelled by Israeli occupation forces to serve as a human shield while they searched buildings in Khan Younis and was\u00a0subsequently shot and killed by a commander in the military’s Nahal Brigade.<\/p>\n

The report noted that the Palestinian man had authorization to be in the area. However, the army commander, upon identifying him as Palestinian, reportedly took out a rifle and shot him. The commander was allegedly unaware that the man was permitted to be inside the building being searched.<\/p>\n

The Israeli occupation military said that “the incident was investigated by the brigade commander, and the findings have been implemented during troops\u2019 current operations.”<\/p>\n

In August, the Israeli newspaper\u00a0Haaretz<\/em>\u00a0reported that the Israeli military had used Palestinians as human shields during building searches in Gaza after soldiers were told “our lives are more important than their lives.”<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Middle East Monitor<\/em>\u00a0news website noted that the\u00a0use of Palestinians as human shields by the Israeli military has been a longstanding practice during operations in the occupied territories. This policy, referred to as the “neighbor procedure”, was first introduced in 2002 in the occupied West Bank, the website added.<\/p>\n

‘Mosquito Protocol’; when IOF use Gaza detainees as human shields: CNN<\/h2>\n

In late October,\u00a0CNN<\/em>\u00a0reported, citing an Israeli soldier and five former Palestinian detainees, that the Israeli occupation forces forced Palestinians into potentially booby-trapped houses and tunnels in Gaza, using them to avoid endangering their troops.<\/p>\n

The soldier revealed that his unit detained two Palestinians with the explicit intent of using them as human shields to navigate hazardous areas, emphasizing that this practice is common among Israeli units in Gaza.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe told them to enter the building before us,\u201d he told\u00a0CNN<\/em>, adding that \u201cif there are any booby traps, they will explode and not us.\u201d<\/p>\n

This method is referred to as\u00a0the \u201cMosquito Protocol\u201d<\/a>, according to the report.<\/p>\n

CNN<\/em>\u00a0mentioned that the full extent of the practice by the IOF is not well known. Nonetheless, the testimonies from the soldier and five civilians indicate that it was widespread throughout the besieged Strip, particularly in northern Gaza, Gaza City, Khan Younis, and Rafah.<\/p>\n

In a similar report, a\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0investigation revealed that Israeli soldiers and intelligence agents have been coercing detained Palestinians in Gaza to\u00a0carry out life-threatening reconnaissance missions<\/a>\u00a0to avoid risking the lives of Israeli soldiers on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

Palestinian abductees in Gaza have reportedly been forced to scout areas in Gaza where the Israeli military suspects Resistance fighters may have laid traps or prepared ambushes.<\/p>\n

Source : Al Mayadeen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Israeli military commander shot dead a Palestinian man who had been\u00a0used as a human shield\u00a0in Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. According to\u00a0The Hottest Place in Hell, an independent investigative journalism website, the Palestinian man was compelled by Israeli occupation forces to serve as a human shield while<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4339,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions\/4339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raqeeb.ps\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}