Israeli soldier tells CBS News he was ordered to use Palestinians as human shields in Gaza

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israeli-soldier-palestinians-human-shields-gaza/

CBS News spoke recently with an Israeli soldier who has questioned the military's tactics. Tommy — not his real name, as he agreed to speak with CBS News on the condition of anonymity — fought in Gaza for the IDF, and his account of the tactics used raises some serious questions.

"We've burned down buildings for no reasons, which is violating the international law, of course," he told CBS News. "…And we used human shields as protection."

Tommy said his commander ordered his unit to use Gazan civilians to search buildings for explosives instead of dogs.

"They were Palestinian," he said. "We sent them in first to see if the building was clear and check for booby traps…They were trembling and shaking."

[Chasstev365]

1. A Tactic Used During the Boer Wars at the Turn of the Last Century

Netanyahu is an evil man.

[WarGamer]

2. very disturbing

[Carlitos Brigante]

3. This is not new by any stretch. nt

[David__77]

4. The Israeli rulers don't see Palestinians as the same species.

[leftstreet]

5. DURec

[malaise]

6. No surprise

Genocide, ethnic cleansing.
Truth will out and the West is complicit

[Beastly Boy]

7. There are 670,000 active personnel in IDF at any given time.

Should this account be backed by evidence, it will represent 0.00067% of IDF.

I recall seeing an dentical account being reported months ago. But let me concede the point that this is not the only one, and many similar instances went on unreported. Let's assume it is 100 times worse than had been reported in this article.

With this assumption taken for granted, the number of such instances would represent the conduct of 0.067% of IDF.

Unless your intent was to illustrate how exceptional these occurrences are, tell me of any other army in the world that can claim a better overall wartime record of conduct than this.

[womanofthehills]

8. Haaretz posted yesterday

Many Israeli soldiers are not reporting for duty as they object to Netanyahu’s tactics.

American drs in Gaza said many children are being killed by gunshots.