During that time, Shubeir said, the soldiers used him as a human shield. And though they served in different parts of Gaza at different points in the war, the soldiers largely used the same terms to refer to human shields. The Israeli military employed a similar practice, known as the “neighbor procedure,” in Gaza and the West Bank in the early 2000s. Israeli soldiers have used human shields in a different way. His sister, 15, was later shot and killed after Israeli soldiers entered the building, he said.

Source: New York Times October 16, 2024 08:39 UTC