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***UN report says Israel used boy as human shield
The Associated Press Published: March 23, 2009
GENEVA: Israeli soldiers used an 11-year-old Palestinian boy as a human shield
during the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, U.N. human rights experts said
Monday.
The Israeli Defense force ordered the boy to walk in front of soldiers being
fired on in the Gaza neighborhood of Tel al-Hawa and enter buildings before
them, said the U.N. secretary-general's envoy for protecting children in armed
conflict.
The boy also was told to open the bags of Palestinians — presumably to protect
the soldiers from possible explosives — before being released at the entrance
to a hospital, Radhika Coomaraswamy said.
She said the Jan. 15 incident, after Israeli tanks had rolled into the
neighborhood and during intense operations, was a violation of Israeli and
international law.
It was included in a 43-page report published Monday, and was just one of many
verified human rights atrocities during the three-week war between Israel and
Hamas that ended Jan. 18, she said.
Coomaraswamy accused Israeli soldiers of shooting Palestinian children,
bulldozing a home with a woman and child still inside, and shelling a building
they had ordered civilians into a day earlier.
Violations were reported on a daily basis, too numerous to list, said
Coomaraswamy, who visited Gaza and Israel for five days in February.
Coomaraswamy said there also have been allegations that Hamas used human
shields or fired from heavily populated areas, and that U.N. officials are
investigating.
Israel criticized the report as unable or perhaps unwilling to address Hamas
rocket attacks from Gaza or the threat of terrorism, citing Saturday's failed
attempt to explode a car bomb in a Haifa mall parking lot as the most recent
manifestation.
The report claims to examine Israel's actions while it willfully ignores and
downplays the terrorist and other threats we face, Ambassador Aharon Leshno
Yaar told the 47-nation Human Rights Council.
Leshno Yaar said terrorists use women and children as human shields when they
launch attacks from schools, homes, hospitals and mosques. He did not address
the report's specific allegation about the boy, but an army spokesman rejected
the claim.
We are an army to which morals and high ethical standards are paramount, said
Capt. Elie Isaacson.
Coomaraswamy said her list of Israeli violations constituted just a few
examples of the hundreds of incidents that have been documented and verified
by U.N. officials who were in the territory.
She was the only one of the nine U.N. experts who compiled the report that was
allowed into Gaza following the war. The experts covered issues ranging from
health and hunger to women's rights and arbitrary executions.
The experts also noted reports that Hamas had committed other abuses. They said
Hamas had been unwilling to investigate the allegations.
The report called for Israel to investigate human rights abuses that occurred
during the conflict.
Last week Israel's military ordered a criminal inquiry into published reports
from soldiers that some troops had knowingly killed Palestinian civilians,
including children.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/23/news/UN-UN-Gaza.php
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