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.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 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

    • holycrap@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 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.

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

        Actually it refers to the fact that any other army in the world would have carpet bombed their neighbor’s entire shit after about the fifteenth suicide bombing. Israel didn’t. And the fact that we’re one year almost into a siege war that Gaza started, in such a densly populated area, and 98% of the people who live there managed to follow evacuation directions, get food, water, and medicine, and are alive and well, supports the claim as well. Oh I forgot, Israel is simultaneously trying to wipe out Gaza but they keep sending in more and more food and medicine. We’ve been hearing how “famine is imminent” since November of last year and it hasn’t borne out because, gasp, Israel actually is feeding people contrary to what Al Jazeera says. What is it the most incompetently run genocide ever? Going to take another 130 years at this rate.

        • 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.

  • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 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.