{"id":294740,"date":"2025-05-05T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=294740"},"modified":"2025-05-05T07:07:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T06:07:50","slug":"walk-or-die-israeli-officer-used-80-year-old-palestinian-as-a-human-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/05\/walk-or-die-israeli-officer-used-80-year-old-palestinian-as-a-human-shield\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Walk or Die\u2019: Israeli Officer Used 80-Year-Old Palestinian as a Human Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Israeli soldiers forced an 80-year-old Palestinian man to walk ahead of them with an explosive-laced strap around his neck\u2014then shot him and his wife as they tried to flee.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

3 May 2025 –<\/em> A senior officer in the Nahal Brigade tied an explosive-laced strap around the neck of an 80-year-old Palestinian man and forced him to walk ahead of soldiers as a human shield for eight hours, according to an investigation<\/a>\u00a0by Israeli outlet The Hottest Place in Hell.<\/p>\n

The incident reportedly took place in May during an operation by Division 99 in the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City.<\/p>\n

According to testimonies from Israeli soldiers present, the officer attached a detonating fuse\u2014connected to an initiating detonator\u2014around the elderly man\u2019s neck as a leash, threatening to blow up his head if he disobeyed orders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey explained to him that if he did something wrong or not as we wanted, the person behind him would pull the rope and his head would be severed from his body,\u201d one soldier told the investigative outlet.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe walked around with us like that for eight hours, even though he was an 80-year-old man and even though he couldn\u2019t escape us. And this was in the knowledge that there was a soldier behind him who could pull the rope at any second\u2014and he would be finished.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the report, the Israeli military refers to this practice as the \u2018Mosquito Procedure\u2019, a euphemism for forcing Palestinian civilians to serve as human shields in combat zones.<\/p>\n

Forced into Danger, Then Shot by Another Unit\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n

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3 May 2025 – Israeli soldiers forced an 80-year-old Palestinian man to walk ahead of them with an explosive-laced strap around his neck\u2014then shot him and his wife as they tried to flee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":294741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1854,865,487,3264,88,427,880,70,965,886],"class_list":["post-294740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-genocide","tag-human-rights","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-state-terrorism","tag-usa","tag-war-crimes","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294742,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294740\/revisions\/294742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}