Spotlight Detainees describe IDF using them as ‘human shields’

Malak A Tantesh, Julian Borger, Sufian Taha

After they burned down his family home in northern Gaza, Israeli troops separated Ramez al-Skafi from his family and detained him. They had a job in mind for him, he said. For the next 11 days in early July, the 30-year-old Palestinian said he was sent into one house after another in his home district, Shuja’iya, watched by his Israeli military minders. According to the account he gave the Guardian, they turned him into a human shield against booby-traps and Hamas gunmen. “I tried to resist their proposal, but they started beating me and the officer told me it was not my choice to make and that I have to do whatever they want,” Skafi said. “He told me that my work would be searching the houses and telling them…

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Guardian Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 25 October 2024

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