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.

    • holycrap@lemm.eeEnglish
      161·
      3 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
        327·
        3 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
          182·
          3 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
            419·
            3 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.

            • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
              102·
              3 months ago

              You don’t know what carpet bombing is, obviously. 50,000 is a tiny amount civilian deaths.

              50,000 is a little under a third of those killed in Hiroshima, and more than half of those killed in Nagasaki. It’s twice the amount killed in the WWII bombing of Dresden.

            • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
              71·
              3 months ago

              You don’t know what carpet bombing is, obviously. 50,000 is a tiny amount civilian death

              Would you like to guess at the civilian casualty numbers for a few incidents of British terror bombing over German cities in WW2? Terror bombing that was, quite explicitly, meant to blanket civilian areas with ordinance indiscriminately?

              I don’t think you know what carpet bombing casualty figures look like.

            • Cypher@lemmy.worldEnglish
              71·
              3 months ago

              So 1300~ dead is a drop in the bucket and clearly not worth all this fuss.

            • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
              72·
              3 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
                9·
                3 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.

            • filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              I wonder if your whole family gets wiped out in one of those bombings, if you were on the other side if you will still think that 50 K is a drop in the bucket. You know even one death of a civilian is one too many. Plus Israel destroyed a big chunk of the infrastructure of Gaza. They are acting with utter impunity and have complete disregard of civilian casualties because of people like you.

              And they are using 100 - 200 hostages as an excuse to continue doing so. And now tell me how many civilians did IDF killed? You know in wars you have a principle of proportionality:

              The principle of proportionality prohibits attacks against military objectives which are “expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects, or a combination thereof, which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated”.

              http://casebook.icrc.org/a_to_z/glossary/proportionality#:~:text=The principle of proportionality prohibits,and direct military advantage anticipated”.

              If I am not wrong the IDF broke this principle many times while claiming that your army is the most moral is a bit hypothetical.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    342·
    3 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

  • acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
    211·
    3 months ago

    Oh wait people, the IDF rejected the allegations. Nothing to see here, move along. 😑

  • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    3 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.