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Apartheid Israel ranks #1 in the world in using human shields. A sampling, from 2000-present: June 2025: A 63-Year-Old Medical Worker Spent 3 Months as a Human Shield for Israeli Brigades in Gaza “They dressed me in military uniform, and asked me to search in homes for explosives.” dropsitenews.com/p/palestini… May 2025: Senior Israeli officers instructed soldiers to use Palestinians as human shields, and in some cases ordered them to do so when they tried to refuse: “orders often came from the top, and at times nearly every platoon used a Palestinian to clear locations, said an Israeli officer, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal… one soldier told the AP his unit tried to refuse to use human shields in mid-2024 but were told they had no choice, with a high-ranking officer saying they shouldn’t worry about international humanitarian law.” apnews.com/article/israel-pa… February 2025: Israeli soldiers used an 80-year-old Gazan as a human shield. Soldiers put an explosive cord around the man's neck and forced him to scout buildings for eight hours. After his release, another division shot him dead. 972mag.com/gaza-human-shield… October 2024: A 17-year-old Palestinian student who was used as a human shield in Gaza told @nytimes “The soldiers sent me like a dog to a booby-trapped apartment… I thought these would be the last moments of my life.” nytimes.com/2024/10/14/world… October 2024: the Israeli army published a video (and then deleted it) of the Israeli army using a Palestinian civilian as a human shield during a raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza palestinechronicle.com/watch… August 2024: @Haaretz published a long report detailing the Israeli Army's systematic use of Palestinian civilians as human shields. The tagline reads: "'Our lives are more important than their lives': Gazans not suspected of terrorism are detained and sent as human shields to search tunnels and houses before IDF soldiers enter, with the full knowledge of senior Israeli officers, several sources say." They write: "Most of the 'recruited' are older men...in some cases boys or very old people were also used...". Palestinian victims are: "dressed in an IDF uniform, his hands are handcuffed behind his back, a camera attached to his body." More reporting: “Today, almost every platoon keeps a ‘shawish’ and no infantry force enters a house before a ‘shawish’ clears it. This means there are four ‘shawishes’ in a company, twelve in a battalion, and at least 36 in a brigade. We operate a sub-army of slaves.” haaretz.com/israel-news/2024… July 2024, Al-Jazeera published footage of Palestinian prisoners appearing as human shields for Israeli soldiers in Gaza, including Palestinian prisoners forced to search destroyed buildings in Gaza while being monitored by cameras & drones. Al-Jazeera has also published footage of a Palestinian man forced by Israeli soldiers to search an abandoned UNRWA school in Gaza City, also while being monitored by Israeli drones. electronicintifada.net/conte… & instagram.com/middleeasteye/… June 2024: Israeli soldiers used an aid truck perfidiously as a humanitarian shield to enter central Gaza, killing 276 Palestinians & releasing 4 hostages. A survivor of the massacre reported: the aid truck stopped in Nuseirat, Israeli soldiers got out of the truck & sprayed him w/3 bullets. teapawt.net/muhammadshehad2/status… May 2024: the Israeli military used an elderly man in Shuja'iyya, Gaza as a human shield, forcing him to inspect buildings with two (likely explosive) drones on top of his head ready to kill him at any second. teapawt.net/muhammadshehad2/status… Jan. 2024: the Israeli military used a civilian as a human shield in clashes today in Hebron, West Bank. teapawt.net/QudsNen/status/1746887… Jan 2024: Israeli gunmen dressed as hospital staff and Arab civilians raided a hospital in the West Bank city of Jenin, killing 3 Palestinians. npr.org/2024/01/30/122783268… January 2024: the Israeli army used a Jerusalemite as a human shield in its invasion of the Qalandia refugee camp. The Israel soldier holding him is careful to keep the Palestinian detainee in front of him as they point their weapons upwards. teapawt.net/PeruginiNic/status/175… December 2023: "Testimony of those arrested by the Israeli army (in Gaza): They provided vests packed w/ explosives to the detainees & put them in a tunnel as human shields. If anyone resisted, the army would blow up the detainee booby-trapped in the tunnel!" 10 Nov 2023: A video shows Israeli soldiers using a blindfolded Palestinian detainee as a human shield in the West Bank. He is seated on the ground w/ vehicles behind him using him as a shield as an Israeli soldier aim his rifle towards Palestinians middleeastmonitor.com/202311… Oct. 7, 2023-present: Israeli forces systematically using Palestinians as human shields. "The practice was reportedly so common in the Israeli military that it had a name: “mosquito protocol.” edition.cnn.com/2025/03/12/m… "the mosquito procedure...refers to Palestinians being detained [& used as human shields] we heard from one of the soldiers... why do I need to push a human being into a tunnel & their officer said, too many dogs in the IDF dog unit died." @NBCNews journalist: "So Palestinian men are replacing animals?" @weimanadav "yes" teapawt.net/_ZachFoster/status/188… May 2023: Israeli soldiers forced Nidal, 9, Karam, 11, Ahmad, 2 & Mohammad, 2 to stand in front of Israeli military vehicles while Israeli forces fired tear gas canisters, stun grenades & live ammunition at Palestinians confronting the soldiers in Ramallah aurdip.org/en/israeli-forces… March 2023: Anas al-Khalili from Nablus. “I was used as a human shield by Israeli forces. They handcuffed me & started shooting from behind me. While I was handcuffed, they pushed me down the stairs, they stayed behind me & were shooting at the men… youtube.com/watch?v=XHi6uQj4… May 2022: Israeli occupation soldiers used a 16-year-old Palestinian girl as a human shield in front of an Israeli military vehicle during an Israeli military attack on the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail… March 2018 Israel soldiers detained ‘Abd a-Rahim Gheith in Jericho & ordered him out the car, handcuffed him & made him sit on the road for 2hrs. Gheith was then used as a human shied, & was hit by stones thrown at the soldiers. Video evidence: youtube.com/watch?v=oed1s5jv… July-Aug 2014: “Israeli soldiers handcuffed & blindfolded us...they made us stand by the windows as protective shields for them. There was gunfire all around us. They made us stand by the window for 9 hours. We were their shields.” - Ramadan Qudeih youtube.com/watch?v=oed1s5jv… July-August 2014: “They refused to let us out….I asked for am ambulance for my sister, who fainted, they refused. They held us to protect themselves. -Nazeeha al-Najjar (7:30) youtube.com/watch?v=oed1s5jv… July-August 2014: "I was taken prisoner, handcuffed & walked almost at gun point…he made me walk forward and he was protected by me…if any shots had been fired, they’d have hit me. He [the israeli soldier] was right behind me.youtube.com/watch?v=oed1s5jv… 2013: Israeli forces use 17-year-old Palestinian teenager as human shield while trying to disperse a protest in Abu Dis in the West Bank english.ahram.org.eg/NewsCon… 2011: two dozen former Israeli soldiers came forward providing eyewitness accounts(this link opens in a new window) of the abuse of Palestinian civilians by the Israel military, including the use of adults and children as human shields. breakingthesilence.org.il/te… 2010-2013: "The Committee on the Rights of the Child express deep concern about the continuous use of Palestinian children as human shields and informants. 14 such cases have been reported from January 2010 to 31 March 2013 only." youtube.com/watch?v=oed1s5jv… 2008-9: Israeli military used Palestinians as human shields in the 2008-9 war on Gaza, including Majdi Abd Rabbo, Abbas Ahmad Ibrahim Halawa, Mahmoud Abd Rabbo al-Ajrami and others. See p. 218-230 of the UN's Goldstone Report: documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/… 2009: the Israeli army used Magdy Rabbo as a human shield: “the officers said I wouldn’t see my family unless i did it…he pushed me w/his weapon, held me by my neck & said go." [He had to go back & forth between Israeli soldiers & hamas fighers]. youtube.com/watch?v=acaU4D6d… 2009: “The Israelis would send us ahead...they made me dig holes in the wall & in the houses first to check in case they were booby trapped. We were put in front so in case there was gunfire, we would be [hit].” -Rabbi Abde Rabi, Gaza resident youtube.com/watch?v=acaU4D6d… 2007: Israeli rights group B’Tselem and Defense for Children International - Palestine documented at least 16 cases in which Israeli soldiers used Palestinian civilians - including six children as young as 11-years-old - as human shields during the course of the year. In one case, a 14-year-old girl was shot and severely wounded while Israeli soldiers used her as a human shield in Gaza. imeu.org/resources/key-issue… 2000-5: the Israeli military used Palestinians as human shields on 1,200 occasions from 2000-5, according to Israeli officials. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/… 2002: IDF forced Palestinians to walk thru buildings suspected to be booby-trapped. it ordered them to enter certain areas before the combat forces...the army used residents as a “human shield” to serve as a shield against attack on those forces (p.230) documents.un.org/doc/undoc/g… May 2001: the Israeli army took over Hussein Aladi’s home, established an Israeli military base on the roof. For 3 months, they fired every day from there. The army insisted family always remain in the house, to protect the Israeli soldiers in it. youtube.com/watch?v=D9SlKCla…

Galloway: As a Jew, I find it entirely unfair and not accurate to describe what’s happening in Israel as a genocide. El-Sayed: When people use dehumanizing language against a people, when they bomb their hospitals and schools, when they attempt to displace them from where they are…that seems to me to be deliberate targeting. So I would ask you, do you understand why somebody who’s been thinking about this question, looking at it, connecting the dots between the language that is used and the outcomes that were created, would then label it that way?