00:00This Israeli soldier is speaking out, but at his request, his face is not being shown and his voice has been disguised.
00:07I have a lot of regrets in the rules of engagement in Gaza, like every male is considered a terrorist between like the age of 15 to 60.
00:16The 20-year-old reservist served for seven months in Gaza and claims it was a routine practice for the Israeli army to use Palestinians as human shields.
00:25We want like them to be in danger and to be like wounded or killed instead of the soldiers.
00:32When you had like a building, so you sent like first Palestinians to go and open the doors and to look for booby traps and other dangerous things.
00:45Now, Reuters is reporting that in the final weeks of the Biden administration, the U.S. intelligence agencies collected evidence of other such incidents,
00:54specifically that Palestinians were being sent by Israeli soldiers into tunnels under Gaza, potentially lined with explosives, actions deemed illegal under international law.
01:05In a statement, the Israeli Defense Forces said it prohibits the use of civilians as human shields or coercing them in any way to participate in military operations.
01:14Our fellow Americans.
01:15The U.S. intelligence on the matter in 2024 raised questions inside the Biden White House about whether Israel was committing war crimes in Gaza,
01:24and if so, whether the U.S. could be held liable for supplying weapons to the IDF.
01:30Ultimately, the Biden White House determined Israel was not committing war crimes, and the U.S. continued to supply Israel with weapons.
01:37During the war in Gaza, Hamas has also been accused of using civilians as human shields by embedding militants inside hospitals,
01:45accusations the group has denied.
