IDF Uses Israeli Arabs As Shields
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Courtesy Of: IslamOnline.net
By Mohammad Gamal Arafa
Tue., Aug 8, 2006

Cairo--An Israeli Arab member of Knesset has accused the Israeli Army of using villages and towns predominantly populated by Israeli Arabs as "shields" to escape the barrages of rockets fired by the Lebanese Hizbullah resistance group.

"During a short visit to offer condolences to the families of victims killed in Hizbullah's rocket attacks, I saw Israeli tanks shelling (south) Lebanon from two towns of Arab Al-Aramisha and Tarshiha, which are predominantly populated by Arabs," MK Sheikh Abbas Zako said in a statement, a copy of which was received by IslamOnline.net.

Zako stressed that the Israeli tanks are positioned Just next to the houses of citizens.

"Hizbullah's rockets are only a response to shelling by tanks positioned inside the towns," he said.

...Israeli Army has been accused of using Palestinian civilians as human shields in an operation in northern Gaza.

According to the Israeli human rights group, B'tselem, Israeli soldiers seized control of two buildings in the town of Beit Hanun and used six residents, two of them minors, as human shileds.

It is said they held them on the staircases of the two buildings and at the entrance to rooms, in which the soldiers positioned themselves, for some twelve hours.

During this time, there were intense exchanges of gunfire between the soldiers and Palestinian fighters.


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The Israeli lawmaker saw the deployment of tanks at the entrances and centers of Arab towns and villages as a sign of continued bias against Israeli Arabs by their government.

"This demonstrates the fact that the blood of Israeli Jews is thicker than that of Israeli Arabs," he fumed.


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