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Classified US cable: IDF used Gazans as ‘human shields’ in previous Gaza invasion
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09TELAVIV1694_a.html#efmAn8Axu
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[Highlighted] Individual Palestinians also testified to IDF abuses such as looting, beatings, vandalism of property and the use of the local population as human shields. But by far the strongest reverbration in Israel was that created by the Israeli organization “Breaking the Silence”, which collected testimony from 26 unnamed IDF soldiers. All of the soldiers had been involved in Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip, and testified to instances where Gazans were used as human shields, incendiary phosphorous shells were fired over civilian population areas, and other examples of excessive firepower that caused unnecessary fatalities and destruction of property.
Article: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09TELAVIV1694_a.html#efmAn8Axu