Source: Reuters
Web posted at: 3/9/2007
3:44:13
Jerusalem • Israeli soldiers used an 11-year-old Palestinian girl as a “human shield” during an operation against militants in the West Bank town of Nablus last week, an Israeli human rights group said yesterday.
...B’Tselem said the girl, Jihan Daadush, told its interviewers that Israeli soldiers had entered her family home and questioned her and her relatives about the whereabouts of gunmen who had fired at them during the raid.
The soldiers, she said, threatened to arrest her unless she led them to a nearby house.
“(A soldier) ordered me to go towards the house,” B’Tselem quoted the girl as saying.
“Three soldiers walked behind me. When we reached the house, there were a lot of soldiers. The soldiers ordered me to go inside the house and I went inside.”
B’Tselem said Jihan told them the soldiers shone flashlights and asked about the rooms of the house...
“(One of the soldiers) told me, ‘Thank you, but don’t tell anyone,’” the girl said, according to B’Tselem.
“I was afraid they would kill me or put me in jail. I am still afraid the soldiers will invade the city again and take me away.”
B’tselem also said the army had used a 15-year-old Palestinian boy and a Palestinian man for a similar purpose during the five-day raid of Nablus...
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Friday, March 09, 2007
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