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Die Nutzung von "human shields", von eine Art von Zivilisten, die sie als eine Art von Köder einsetzen und in Gebäude schicken. Dutzende in jeder Brigade.

>>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.<<

Der Autor dieser Zeilen ist Offizier einer Brigade die in Gaza eingesetzt wurde.

>>As early as August of 2024, when this story broke in Haaretz and in testimonies collected by Breaking the Silence, a senior source said that both the outgoing IDF Chief of Staff and the outgoing Head of the Southern Command knew about the procedure. I don't know which is worse: that they don't know what's going on in the army they command, or that they do know and continue regardless.<<

>>It's been more than seven months since that story was published, and soldiers have continued detaining Palestinians and forcing them to go into houses and tunnels ahead of them. While the Chief of Staff and the Head of the Southern Command continued to say and do nothing about it, the protocol became even more widespread and normalized.<<

>>The highest-ranking personnel on the ground have known about the use of human shields for more than a year, and no one has tried to stop it. On the contrary, it was defined as an operational necessity.
It's important to note that we can enter houses without using human shields. We did it for months, according to a proper entry procedure which included sending in a robot, a drone, or a dog. This procedure proved itself, but it took time, and the command wanted achievements here and now.<<

>>It didn't go through without pushback. Soldiers and officers resisted. I resisted. But that's what happens when the senior command doesn't care and the politicians even less. That's what happens when you're quick on the trigger and operationally burned-out to the max. That's what happens when you're in an unending war that fails to bring the hostages back alive month after month. You lose moral judgment.<<

>>This one case shows that the justifications they gave us that the procedure is for "security" purposes weren't true. These people aren't professional combatants; they don't know how to scan a house. The soldiers don't trust them anyway because they're not there of their own free will. Sometimes, "shawishes" are sent to houses just to set those houses on fire or blow them up. It has nothing to do with security.<<

>>Does every mother who sends her son off to fight understand that he might find himself grabbing a Palestinian his father's age, or his younger brother's age, and violently forcing him to run in front of him, unarmed, into a potentially booby-trapped house or tunnel? Not only have we failed to protect our troops, we've corrupted their souls, and there's no way to know what this will do to us, as a society, when they come home from war.<<

>>That's why the MPCID investigation is so infuriating. First, the soldiers are made to use Palestinians as human shields, and then the officers use lower-ranking soldiers as their own human shields, all while we're still desperately trying to get back the hostages that are being held, in part, to serve as human shields for Hamas.<<

>>It was obvious that it was only a matter of time before this story blew up, but it's too big for the MPCID to handle. Only an independent State Commission of Inquiry could get to the bottom of this.
Until then, we have every reason to worry about international courts in the Hague, because this procedure is a crime - a crime even the army now admits. It happens daily and is much more common than the public is being told.<<

All diejenigen, die das Zerstören von zivilen Gebäuden, Schulen, Krankenhäusern, Moscheen, Wohnhäusern und Zehntausende Tote mit "Wir hatten ja keine Wahl, den die Hamas nimmt ja menschliche Schutzschilde" begründeten, inclusive unserer aktuellen Außenministerin dürfen sich mal beherzt an die eigene Nase fassen.

Wieviel Artikel, Zeugenaussagen braucht Ihr denn noch um aufzuhören Kriegsverbrechen einer Armee die regelhaft "menschliche Schutzschilde" einsetzt zu verteidigen?