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<p>Published 00:00 08.03.07<br />
Latest update 00:00 08.03.07</p>
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<h2>Israeli rights group says two other Palestinian youths also made by soldiers to enter houses of fugitives.</h2>
<p><span class="writer"> By 																											Reuters </span></p>
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<p>Israel Defense Forces soldiers used an  11-year-old Palestinian girl as a &#8220;human shield&#8221; during an operation  against militants in the West Bank town of Nablus last week, an Israeli  human rights group said on Thursday.</p>
<p>The IDF said it was checking the information from the B&#8217;Tselem  group, which monitors Israeli actions in the occupied territory. Israeli  law bans the military from using human shields.</p>
<p>B&#8217;Tselem said the girl, Jihan Daadush, told its interviewers that  IDF soldiers had entered her family home and questioned her and her  relatives about the whereabouts of gunmen who had fired at them during  the raid.</p>
<p>The soldiers, she said, threatened to arrest her unless she led them to a nearby house.</p>
<p>&#8220;[A soldier] ordered me to go towards the house,&#8221; B&#8217;Tselem quoted  the girl as saying. &#8220;Three soldiers walked behind me. When we reached  the house, there were a lot of soldiers. The soldiers ordered me to go  inside the house and I went inside.&#8221;</p>
<p>B&#8217;Tselem said Jihan told them the soldiers shone flashlights and  asked about the rooms of the house. There was no mention in the report  of whether troops found militants inside. The girl said two soldiers  then returned her home.</p>
<p>&#8220;[One of the soldiers] told me, &#8216;Thank you, but don&#8217;t tell  anyone,'&#8221; the girl said, according to B&#8217;Tselem. &#8220;I was afraid they would  kill me or put me in jail. I am still afraid the soldiers will invade  the city again and take me away.&#8221;</p>
<p>B&#8217;tselem also said the army had used a 15-year-old Palestinian  boy and a Palestinian man for a similar purpose during the five-day raid  of Nablus, a militant stronghold.</p>
<p>The IDF ended the operation on March 1. During the incursion,  troops shot dead a Palestinian civilian who had observed the raid from  his rooftop. Soldiers also detained 11 suspected militants.</p>
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<p>via <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/b-tselem-idf-used-palestinian-girl-as-human-shield-in-nablus-1.215065">B&#8217;Tselem: IDF used Palestinian girl as human shield in Nablus &#8211; Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News</a>.</p>
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