An Israeli military court convicted two soldiers on Sunday of using a 9-year-old Palestinian boy as a human shield by forcing him to check bags for explosives in Israel’s 2008-9 Gaza war.
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They'll probably get a 2 week prison term, 1 week for good behavior.
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DISCLAIMER: The article oddly comes from tightly censored Western media. Probably the reason it surfaced was to show Israelis as "humane", which includes prosecuting their own for crimes of war (with max. two weeks prison terms, that is). If the roles were reversed (two palestinian fighters using jewish kid to check explosive), it would have been a Holocaust frenzy throughout Western media, the Palestinians would have been KILLED, the "boy" would have had a name and become a lifetime hero.
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