Israel accused of using a 10-year-old girl as a human shield as it carried out its devastating attack on the occupied Palestinian territory

When Israeli soldiers arrived at the modest house along an alleyway in Nur Shams camp on Wednesday night, they sent the women and four of the children out into the street, but kept hold of Malak Shihab.

They took the muzzle off their dog and it went straight up to the slight 10-year-old girl and sniffed her. Terrified, she pleaded to be with her mother, but the soldiers seemed to have just one phrase in accented Arabic: “Open the doors.”

The platoon pushed her up to each of the doors in her aunt’s house, according to Malak’s account, while they remained braced behind her ready to fire at whoever might be inside. One door wouldn’t open, and in her desperation to obey, the girl remembers hammering on it with her head.

The door was finally forced open with a rifle butt which left a hole above the handle, but there was no one on the other side and the soldiers moved on.

The IDF rejected the allegations of the Shihab family.

“Such events are inconsistent with the IDF’s code of conduct, and according to a preliminary inquiry this story is fabricated and did not occur,” a spokesperson said.

    • holycrap@lemm.eeEnglish
      16·
      4 months ago

      “Most moral army” just refers to the practice of saying a prayer thanking God before raping and blessing their weapons with holy water before committing genocide with them. You know, moral stuff.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    341·
    4 months ago

    “Such events are inconsistent with the IDF’s code of conduct, and according to a preliminary inquiry this story is fabricated and did not occur,” a spokesperson said.

    We’ve all seen you murdering many tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza and executing civilians in the West Bank. Your code of conduct sucks, and you lie constantly, not even caring that everyone knows you are lying. Your “preliminary inquiry” probably didn’t even take place.

    https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/08/west-bank-israeli-forces-unlawful-killings-palestinians

  • acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    4 months ago

    Oh wait people, the IDF rejected the allegations. Nothing to see here, move along. 😑

  • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    4 months ago

    Ah yes the most probable thing is that this is fabricated because we have seen the IEF soldiers only obey their code of conduct and act nicely.

  • BigMacHole@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    4 months ago

    If you don’t like using 10 year olds as Human Shields you HATE JEWS because ALL JEWS LOVE using Kids as Human Shields for Gunfire!