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As part of its genocide in Gaza, the military registered by the UN as a violator of children’s human rights is “systematically” detaining and torturing children, according to Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP).

Like adults in Israel’s custody, children told DCIP of how troops beat them bloody; threatened to kill them; humiliated them; deprived them of food; stripped them naked; and sicced dogs on them.

This echoes other reports finding that Israeli troops are, in fact, told by military officials to use Palestinians as human shields — even as Israeli officials spread uncorroborated claims of Hamas forces using civilians as human shields that Israel often uses to justify the killing of thousands of civilians.

A recent investigation by Haaretz found that Israeli units will often dress Palestinians up as Israeli soldiers and make them walk, handcuffed, in front of troops or into tunnels and houses to serve as shields. These Palestinians are specifically selected by Israeli troops for this, presumably so that they can blend in with the Israeli military. Sometimes those who are chosen for this purpose are children.

Military officials as high as the chief of staff are aware of this practice, suggesting that it is not only okay with the military leadership, but condoned. Soldiers are told, the report found, “our lives are more important than their lives.”

Link to the DCIP Article

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The war crimes were inside us all this time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe the real Hamas were the kids we murdered along the way

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those kids just need to condemn Hamas and then it will all stop, right?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unrealistic. They would never give a voice to a victim of genocide like this

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Good call. Guess I'm going to have to go with this bit of awareness again. 😬

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Every accusation is a confession by the sounds of things.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Applies to Republicans, Israel, and Russia.

And oh look, they all have the same goal.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Credit to [email protected] for assembling all of these references from different journals in the post text.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Thanks! I try to link whatever articles in the post text that are linked in the article. The DCIP article referenced wasn't linked in the Truthout article somehow, so I wanted to link that too. It goes into a lot of info about each event and I thought it was important to share along with this article

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Biden obviously wouldn't send them more money after this would he?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Listen here Jack I just had a meeting with Jordan Netanyahu on the, uh, on the talk thing and he agreed to stop our using our vaccines on civilians, but I remain, uh, I still think Israel has a right to the Syrian homeland