Hamas condemns Israeli use of Palestinians as human shields
Member of Hamas’ political bureau has condemned Israeli regime for using Palestinian detainees as human shields stressing that the regime should be accountable for the crime.
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Ezzat al-Resheq said, “The Nazi occupation army’s use of Palestinian detainees as human shields during its terrorist operations in the Gaza Strip is a full-fledged war crime, a flagrant violation of all rules of war and the prisoners’ rights, and a disregard for all international conventions, laws and agreements.”
He made the remarks in reaction to a video aired by Al Jazeera satellite channel that showed an exclusive footage of Palestinian prisoners being used as human shields by the Israeli forces in Gaza.
Resheq affirmed that the crime of human shields is part of many crimes and violations the Palestinian detainees are exposed to by Israeli forces, “including all forms of brutal revenge such as starvation, humiliation, abuse, deliberate medical neglect, deprivation of food and medicine, bone breaking, slow killing and field executions.”
The Hamas official urged the international community to condemn this crime and called on the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court to add the use of Palestinians as human shields to Israel’s war crimes files.
Earlier this week the Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank also shot a Palestinian and tied the wounded man to their military vehicle’s hood as a human shield.