Israel Defense Forces soldiers used an 11-year-old Palestinian girl as a "human shield" during an operation against militants in the West Bank town of Nablus last week, an Israeli human rights group said on Thursday. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/834937.html 8 March 07: Israeli soldiers use two Palestinian minors as human shields http://www.btselem.org/english/Human_Shields/20070225_Human_Shields_in_Nablus.asp
Seems a pretty rotten trick. Not exactly in accordance with the Geneva Convention. I somehow don't think this will deter hardline Palestinians.
The OP is hilarious. A bunch of stupid little kids are throwing rocks so the soldiers do the smart thing and put one of the kids on the target. It's not like they were getting shot at. They kid wasn't in any more danger than his stupid little friends put him in. Try throwing rocks at your friendly local cops and see what happens. Those soldiers were nice. As for the "human shield" accusation, that's a little over the top. But whining about it is rediculously hypocritical considering that the gunmen were firing on the soldiers while hiding within the civilian population. The IDF was just took one of the human shields the Palistinians were using and made her work for them. But hey, let's not talk about the Palestinians using the entire town as a human shield. It's hard to deter a people that's pro genocide.
Yep, it's a shame commandos doesn't have integrity when it comes to these things. Lying and misleading when it comes to Israel, claiming to hate hezbollah, but defending hezbollah tooth and nail regarding their *real crimes* of actually hiding behind women and children during the recent war they started with Israel. The message is as clear as night and day
Terrible! Well that is quiet usual from them! I wouldnt be surprised if the Isreali government claims as it was done for "self defece".
Don't forget the rules! When it comes to the United States and Israel Guilty unless proven completely innocent.
Would you rather they arrested the stupid kids for assulting an officer? Or do stupid little kids get a free pass for chucking rocks at military personelle? What risk was there to the kids they used? They sent the kids in and never fired a shot. If your terrorist geneocidal buddies weren't hiding in the civilian population little kids wouldn't be in harms way to begin with. The kids were already human shields before Israel showed up. At least with Israeli soilders around, there was far less chance of one of your buddies getting her killed. If your buddies want to turn the general population into human shields then Israel has a right to turn that human shield against them.
Mind Blowing!! how come the kids are listening to 'em....so wierd of them!!I fear about the future world!! I just read that article .....i am speechless... oh yeah....guess so...i feel you are right...may be they are just pretending as if...they dint shoot them but just showing off ...and i hope the soldiers have good brains and body than us..so ..i donno ...i am confused..but how can a human shied used for self defence? if a bad guy does, good guys too cannot do it..?isnt it?
Gtech Do you condemn this act or are you supporting it, the same way as you supported the rape of the teenage girl and murder of her family?
Refresh my memory as to when he supported the rape of a teenage girl and the murder of her family please. He's not doing either to this. It's an incorrect premise in the first place.
Condemn what? Are we reading the same story? Israelis are fired upon by those "peaceful islamists." They enter the home, ask the whereabouts. One teen knows where the gunmen are and is asked to lead them to the men that were firing. And a left wing human rights group calls it "human shield" when in fact the story notes the teen was leading them to men that were firing upon them. Only in a backwards world, could someone reverse the victimization here! See the real human shields above. Yeah, I condemn it as much as you condemned hezbollah for *really* hiding behind women and children!
Actually, now that I look at it again, it's kind of funny ... the kid was used as a shield from STONES that his friends were throwing at their vehicles, not BULLETS... lol. I think they were actually being nice... like KalvinB said.