An Israeli media report on Monday said that the Israeli military had confirmed three cases of troops using Palestinian captives as human shields by strapping them onto the hood of army jeeps.
Last week footage of 23-year-old Mujahid Azmi clinging to the bonnet of an Israeli army jeep during a raid near Jenin in the occupied West Bank sparked international outrage.
The Jerusalem Post reports that the Israeli military confirmed two more cases of Palestinians being forced onto the bonnet of army jeeps and drove them, often at high speeds, through Palestinian villages.
The cases were first revealed to the BBC on Sunday in a report in which the victims of this human shielding by the Israeli army spoke to the news service.
This prompted the Israeli military to then confirm the veracity of these two additional cases to The Jerusalem Post……more
