Two Israeli troops were convicted in an Israeli court of using a 9-year old Palestinian boy as a human shield and received a suspended sentence and been demoted:
The soldiers had forced the nine-year-old boy to open suspected booby-trapped bags at gunpoint.No, this is not the Onion. This is real. Two soldiers used an innocent child as a human shield and received no jail time and a pay-cut as their sentence. Wow.
During the soldiers' trial in October, the boy, Majid Rabah, said he feared for his life.
"I thought they would kill me. I became very scared and wet my pants," he said in an affidavit.
