An Israeli group published a report allegedly based on the first-hand accounts of Israeli soldiers who engaged in the incursion into Gaza earlier this year. A swift media storm soon enveloped the release of the report. Israeli army spokespeople categorically denied the allegations in the report that Israeli soldiers repeatedly used Palestinian men as human shields. Due to the strict anonymity of the soldiers’ accounts, the Israeli army spokespeople condemned the report as false and misleading.
However, the stories published in that story as recounted by Israeli soldiers corroborate with stories from ordinary Palestinian men who have claimed they were used as human shields. One Palestinian man on a CNN story took the reporters on the route he was taken by Israeli soldiers as they scouted the area looking for Palestinian renegades; furthermore, the man also showed how he was positioned in front of the Israeli solider with the gun resting on his shoulders.
As heinous as those stories are, Breaking the Silence needs to be read, spoken, and written about more in the media and by ordinary citizens like you and me. These types of violations and abuses of human rights need to be brought to light and further prevented from future occurrences.
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