BBC:
Two Israeli soldiers convicted of using a Palestinian child as a human shield during an offensive in Gaza in 2009 have received suspended sentences and been demoted.
The soldiers had forced the nine-year-old boy to open suspected booby-trapped bags at gunpoint.
It occurred during Israel's three-week conflict with Hamas, which rules Gaza.
It was reportedly the first such conviction in Israel, where the use of civilians as human shields is banned.
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Human shields are routinely used by our enemy in Afghanistan in hopes we will fire on them creating a propaganda event for the Taliban. The Afghan government does not do enough to condemn the enemy's use of human shields.
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