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JERUSALEM, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The Israeli Supreme Court Thursday ruled out continued use of Palestinian civilian human shields in arrest raids.
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel and the Israeli Arab human rights organization Adallah, brought the case up as a result of a 2002 incident in which a teenager was killed when troops made him negotiate with a wanted militant.
"You cannot exploit the civilian population for the army's military needs, and you cannot force them to collaborate with the army," Judge Aharon Barak said.
During arrest raids in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Israeli army has in the past used Palestinian civilians as a ploy in capturing wanted militants.
Barak criticized the procedure, citing the Geneva Convention's prohibition against an occupying army using civilians in military operations against their will, the Ha'aretz newspaper reported.
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