Israeli high court bans use of ‘human shields’
Israel’s army must stop using Palestinian civilians as “human shields” in operations against suspected Palestinian militants, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
Palestinian and Israeli human-rights watchdog groups had sought the ruling. The court’s decision that the practice is illegal under international law hardened a temporary injunction issued in 2002.
“The army has no right to use civilians as human shields … It is cruel and barbaric,” Supreme Court Justice Aharon Barak wrote in a 20-page judgement.
Source: Reuters.
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