Khan Younis earlier this month. Palestinian civilians picked up were said to be referred to as ‘shawish’, slang for a low-ranking soldier. Photograph: Haitham Imad/EPA
Israeli forces in Gaza ‘use civilians as human shields’ against possible booby-traps
Newspaper and campaign group allege Palestinians are sent ahead of troops into buildings or tunnels that need clearing
Israeli soldiers are using Palestinian civilians as human shields in Gaza to enter and clear tunnels and buildings they suspect may have been booby-trapped, a leading Israeli NGO and newspaper have reported.
The practice was so widespread across different units fighting in Gaza that it could in effect be considered a “protocol”, said Nadav Weiman, the executive director of Breaking the Silence, a group founded by Israeli combat veterans to document military abuses.
The group has collected testimony describing the practice from veterans of the 10-month war in Gaza. The accounts they have heard match those reported in an investigation by the newspaper Haaretz, which claimed that the chief of staff’s office was aware of the practice.
“The senior ranks know about it,” one source said to have taken part in finding civilians to serve as human shields told the paper. “Our lives are more important than their lives,” Haaretz quoted commanders telling their soldiers.
The practice is said to be so routine that Israeli soldiers have a name for the human shields, who are referred to as shawish – informal slang for a low-ranking soldier – and the process was described by several witnesses.
Palestinian civilians, mostly young men, are picked up by Israeli soldiers, dressed in Israeli army uniforms, then sent into tunnels and damaged houses ahead of Israeli forces, soldiers told Haaretz and Breaking the Silence.
Their hands are tied together and a camera is attached to their bodies as they go in. “Palestinians are told: ‘Do one mission of … a [tunnel] shaft and you’re free,’” Haaretz quoted one soldier saying.
Afterwards, the men are reportedly released to join their families – underlining to the soldiers who spoke to Haaretz and Breaking the Silence that they were civilians who did not pose any military threat and had been detained only for the clearance operations.
Footage of Palestinian civilians, including some in IDF uniform, being sent into devastated buildings was obtained by Al Jazeera and broadcast in July.
Breaking the Silence said it had heard reports of civilians being used as human shields from the early stages of the war in Gaza. Initially it said it thought it had been one commander acting illegally, but testimony started coming in from soldiers stationed across the territory.
“We heard it from different units, fighting in different times and different places inside Gaza,” Weiman said. “Then we understood it’s something a lot more widespread – or even, I could say, a protocol – in the IDF.”
One soldier had been told Palestinian civilians were being used to replace the dog units that search for explosives “because too many dogs had died”, he added.
Many soldiers had raised concerns about a practice that is illegal under international and Israeli law, Weiman said.
In Israel in 2005, the supreme court banned using Palestinians as human shields in response to a petition against the military’s “neighbour procedure” in the West Bank, in which soldiers forced civilians to go ahead of them when raiding houses there.
Haaretz also reported heated arguments, including shouting, between soldiers and commanders ordering the use of human shields. “Most of them realised there was a problematic incident here, and it was hard for them to process,” one source said.
The IDF said that the use of human shields was banned, that orders had been “clarified” to troops on the ground, and that the allegations reported by Haaretz would be reviewed.
“The orders and directives of the IDF prohibit the use of Gazan civilians captured in the field for military missions that endanger them,” a spokesperson said.
The reports of the Israel Defense Forces using civilian human shields come after the Israeli military has repeatedly justified attacks on civilian targets, including schools and hospitals, by alleging Hamas uses them, and uses the people inside them as human shields.
“How we can say that kind of thing after we’re doing this, after we’re taking Palestinians as human shields?” Weiman said.
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The WHO have declared an international public health emergency due to new strain of Monkeypox in Africa.
We have been waiting for the Deep State to show their hand. This might be it.
They need mass mail-in votes to harvest. Are they about to manufacture another “pandemic”?
EDWARD DOWD
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Monkey Pox is transmitted when gay men do the back door boogey.
It is not particularly dangerous, and unlike Kamala, it does not spread easily.
If this is their new panic mechanism of choice the world is going to tell the WHO where to shove it.
Might end up with a raging case.
Just sayin’
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Now Sky are pushing it.
https://news.sky.com/story/how-does-mpox-spread-and-what-is-the-risk-to-the-rest-of-the-world-13196809
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Hackers may have stolen the Social Security numbers of every American.
The breach, which includes Social Security numbers and other sensitive data, could power a raft of identity theft, fraud and other crimes, said Teresa Murray, consumer watchdog director for the U.S. Public Information Research Group.
“If this in fact is pretty much the whole dossier on all of us, it certainly is much more concerning” than prior breaches, Murray said in an interview. “And hif people weren’t taking precautions in the past, which they should have been doing, this should be a five-alarm wake-up call for them.”
According to a class-action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the hacking group USDoD claimed in April to have stolen personal records of 2.9 billion people from National Public Data, which offers personal information to employers, private investigators, staffing agencies and others doing background checks. The group offered in a forum for hackers to sell the data, which included records from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, for $3.5 million, a cybersecurity expert said in a post on X.
The lawsuit was reported by Bloomberg Law.
Last week, a purported member of USDoD identified only as Felice told the hacking forum that they were offering “the full NPD database,” according to a screenshot taken by BleepingComputer. The information consists of about 2.7 billion records, each of which includes a person’s full name, address, date of birth, Social Security number and phone number, along with alternate names and birth dates, Felice claimed.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-08-13/hacker-claims-theft-of-every-american-social-security-number
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🚨🇺🇸🇧🇷BRAZIL'S SUPREME COURT DEMANDS USER DATA FROM X, THREATENS HEFTY FINES
X has disclosed new censorship demands from Brazil's Supreme Court, led by Minister Alexandre de Moraes.
The court has imposed a R$50,000 (approximately $10,000 USD) fine for non-compliance with a previous order, giving X a 5-day payment deadline.
The platform must comply with a previous decision within 1 hour or face daily fines of R$200,000 (about $40,000 USD) per profile.
The court also demands user data for the "allannomad" account within 24 hours, threatening daily fines of R$100,000 (roughly $20,000 USD) for non-compliance.
A separate request requires registration data for 12 X profiles within 5 days.
These orders extend beyond Brazil, affecting users in the US and Argentina.
Source: @GlobalAffairs
Dispicable, Atrocities, unimaginable, unbelieveable......words that need to describe HOW THE RELEASE OF THE HOSTAGES 8 Months after the Oct 7 War on Isreal STILL NOT RETURNED.....then the FACIST RACIST TERRORIST RELIGION OF HAMAS-SEXBOLLAH Supported by MAD -IDIOT -NI XPM Brother hood of ISLMA Leaders of MALAYSIAL-MALUSIAL...>GAZA DESERVE THE ONGOING SUFFERING LIKE KELANTAN-Trengganu-Kedah PEOPLE IN 40 years of FLOOD....Padan muka ...doa sampai MAMPUS Macam kat Gaza....Tiada maaf kalau Orang Tahanan Isreal tak dilepaskan.... Bayangkan kalau dah lepaskan selepas 1 bulan...tapi macam MalaySIAL....TERUS FACIST RACIST KORRUPSI SELAMA 60 Tahun...MAKA MOOLAYU TERUS GAGAL DALAM SEMUA ASPEK KECUALI KORRUPSI...PI MAMPUS AGAMA FACIST MOOLAYU
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