Video shows Palestinian prisoners used as human shields
Exclusive footage obtained by Al Jazeera shows Israeli forces using Palestinian prisoners as human shields during the fighting in the Gaza Strip.
The footage shows the Israeli forces tying prisoners with ropes, installing cameras on their bodies, and forcing them to enter destroyed residences and tunnels in search of explosives. Many of these prisoners are seen wounded, many of them undressed.
In some scenes, we can see one man clearly beaten and bloodied, with his hands tied behind his back, going up the stairs of a building that has been completely destroyed, searching for weapons or more Hamas fighters.
In that same video, you can see dead bodies all over the floor from when the building was destroyed. Additionally, we know that another prisoner was walking behind him with a camera strapped to his chest.
In another part of the video, we see Palestinian prisoners who are dressed in army gear, without any weapons, in some of these other buildings, [also] searching for weapons or Hamas fighters.
The Israeli military, tying a rope across the body of one Palestinian prisoner, forces him into a tunnel where he is being essentially suspended by this rope, which can be tugged by the army.
This is not the first example we’ve seen throughout this war of the Israeli army using Palestinians as human shields in either Gaza or the occupied West Bank.
Euro-Med: Army Uses Family As Human Shields, Runs Over Mother
https://imemc.org/article/euro-med-army-uses-family-as-human-shields-runs-over-mother/
The Israeli army continues to use its tanks to deliberately run over live Palestinian civilians and crush their bodies, in addition to using civilians as human shields, in the ground operations of its crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip that has been ongoing since 7 October 2023.
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor field team documented a compound and comprehensive crime against a civilian family comprising an elderly woman and her four children, including three young women and a one-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter. The family was attacked with gunfire and bombs after Israeli forces stormed their house on Thursday evening, 27 June. They were later taken outside and detained for over three hours despite their injuries in their home, near Israeli tanks in a dangerous combat zone, where they were used as human shields. The 65-year-old mother, identified as Safiya Hassan Musa Al-Jamal, was run over by an Israeli tank and killed in front of her son.
Israeli forces target multiple neighbourhoods: Report
Several people were killed and injured in an Israeli bombardment of the Sabra neighbourhood, south of Gaza City, the Wafa news agency reports, citing local sources.
Israeli artillery also bombed the Shaboura neighbourhood and the vicinity of Al-Awda Roundabout in the centre of Rafah, Wafa reports.
