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.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    They absolutely carpet bombed Gaza. And they only let in Aid because the Western world was actually starting to take action against them. Saying we only have body counts for 2 percent of the population is not the defense you think it is either. That’s a massive amount of civilian deaths for what’s billed as a Western military. And we haven’t been able to count bodies left under the rubble yet, so we know there are more.

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You don’t know what carpet bombing is, obviously. 50,000 is a tiny amount civilian deaths. A million people is a lot of deaths. Five million. Ten. Twenty. Get your head out of the sand. 50,000 is a small town worth of people. It will barely remembered as a footnote in history and it’s truly delusional to think otherwise.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Ah yes, there’s not that many of them so killing them doesn’t matter. Great take. That’s not making you look like a Hugo Boss runway model at all …

        • blunderworld@lemmy.caEnglish
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          2 months ago

          JustZ pretty much exclusively simps for Israel. Either they get a kick out of arguing with strangers, or else they just really, really don’t have anything better to do with their time. Don’t waste your energy.