The Biden administration "must respond to the reported execution-style massacre of women, children, and babies," said the spokesperson of a U.S. Muslim advocacy group.

Eyewitness testimony reported Wednesday by Al Jazeera accused Israeli troops of massacring forcibly displaced women and children sheltering at a school in northern Gaza,

The Israeli soldiers came in and opened fire on them," one unidentified witness said. “They took all men, then entered classrooms and opened fire on a woman and all the children with her,” including “newborn children.”

“The Israeli soldiers executed those innocent families point-blank,” she added.

A man who arrived at the scene after the alleged mass murder told Al Jazeera that “we found dozens of dead bodies in the classrooms.”

“There is no sign of any missiles or shells,” he added. “All those who were in the buildings were executed from point-blank. The Israeli soldiers opened fire on them. Many families came searching for their children. They found them all killed. They were all killed, executed at gunpoint.”

        • Keeponstalin@lemmynsfw.com
          142·
          9 months ago

          “Since the beginning of the occupation in 1967, Israeli security forces have repeatedly used Palestinians in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip as human shields, ordering them to perform military tasks that risked their lives. As part of this policy, soldiers have ordered Palestinian civilians to remove suspicious objects from roads, to tell people to come out of their homes so the military can arrest them, to stand in front of soldiers while the latter shoot from behind them, and more. The Palestinian civilians were chosen at random for these tasks, and could not refuse the demand placed on them by armed soldiers.”

          You can read a lot more about it here

          https://www.btselem.org/human_shields

        • masquenox@lemmy.world
          92·
          9 months ago

          Looks more like the IDF trying to use him as a “human shield,” eh. I guess the Israelis learned that trick from their nazi friends, huh?

    • saze@feddit.uk
      161·
      9 months ago

      I have noticed this trend of whatever Israel is accusing others of perpetuating, it is usually heavily involved in itself.

    • skeezix@lemmy.world
      520·
      9 months ago

      Seems that solider in 2008 is keeping the man behind the concrete partition. Does that look like a human shield? As for the boy, The amazing life and deeds of Mohammed Badwan – The Human Shield Amazing how he’s remained 13 years old for the last 20 years!

      Hamas are terrorists. Their regime ends now.

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
        153·
        9 months ago

        IDF blindfolds a teenager and uses him as a human shield

        WOW LOOK AT THE IDF KEEPING THAT BOY SAFE!!!

        Hope you’re getting paid for this level of cognitive dissonance.

        I’m still waiting for you to link me that evidence of Hamas using human shields like the IDF has done a gazillion times