RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The international defense of children organization (IDC) has criticized an Israeli court verdict on Sunday against two Israeli soldiers that sentenced them to three months suspended sentence for using a 9-year-old Palestinian child as a human shield during the war on Gaza.
The IDC, a Geneva-based international movement, said in a statement on Monday that the ruling did not reflect the severity of the violation committed by the two soldiers and did not serve justice but rather provided additional immunity for Israeli soldiers when committing crimes against Palestinian children.
It said that the verdicts did not conform with Israel's commitment to the international humanitarian law and did not seriously impose protection of civilians at times of war.
The IDC, which has a branch in Palestine, affirmed that it had documented 15 similar cases since 2005 where Israeli occupation forces used Palestinian children as human shields including three cases in 2010.
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