Here is the reason all those settlers and soldiers are so eager to rip off human rights activists’ cameras…

From the Research Journalism Initiative:

Cooperation between Research Journalism Initiative and the International Solidarity Movement in publicizing video footage of Israeli soldiers forcing Palestinians to be human shields leads to a rare case of action against IDF officer. — Link

YNet: IDF soldiers use Nablus youths as ‘human shield’

BY ALI WAKED — Despite repeated promises by the Israel Defense Forces not to make use of
Palestinian civilians as ‘human shields’ during its activity in the territories,
troops operating in Nablus were filmed ordering two Palestinian youths to stand in front of their vehicle to protect it from stones thrown by locals. — Link

Human Rigths Watch has documented further evidence of this sort of war crime:

“The soldiers’ actions fly in the face of the Geneva Conventions, an Israeli high court decision, and the IDF’s own prior commitments,” said Joe Saunders, deputy program director at Human Rights Watch. “Israel should put an immediate end to this wholly illegal practice which deliberately abuses the immunity to which civilians are guaranteed under international law.”

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