Members of Unit 669 of the Israeli Air Force carry a wounded Israeli soldier to a helicopter.
International humanitarian law prohibits human beings as shields in armed conflicts in any form.
The ongoing war in Gaza is not the first time that the Israeli occupation army has been proven to resort to taking Palestinian civilians as human shields.
This article seeks to review the manifestations of the occupation’s violation of international humanitarian law.
The term human shields is used in international humanitarian law in relation to civilians whose presence is exploited to make military objectives safe.
