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[…]Tommy said his commander ordered his unit to use Gazan civilians to search buildings for explosives instead of dogs.
"They were Palestinian," he said. "We sent them in first to see if the building was clear and check for booby traps…They were trembling and shaking."
"We talked to our commander, and we asked him to stop doing it," Tommy said, but they were ordered to continue. He told CBS News it was policy.
The IDF would not confirm if it was investigating any other reported instances of its forces using the "mosquito protocol," but we discovered that Israeli forces are using the same Gaza playbook in the occupied West Bank, where a massive offensive has seen forces blow up homes and displace more than 40,000 people for over two months.
In the West Bank, CBS News met 14-year-old Omri Salem, a studious kid who dreams of being an engineer. His family has been in the area for generations. He told CBS News that, along with his nine-year old cousin, he was ordered by the IDF to search a four-story apartment building.
He didn't want to do it.
"I was so scared," he said. "Then they started beating us." Omri remains deeply emotionally scarred by the soldiers, whom he says forced him at gun point to be their human shield.
In Gaza, Tommy was the one holding the gun, but he said he was also traumatized.
I'm morally wounded," said the soldier.
"It's f****d up, you know, to use citizens as your human shield like a dog."
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