Я был живым щитом для израильтян: история одного жителя Газы
Во время войны в Газе израильские солдаты заставили Мажди Абеда Раббо рисковать жизнью, будучи посредником при операции по уничтожению трех боевиков "Хамаса"
40-летнему жителю сектора Газа Абеду Раббо пришлось по приказу израильских войск совершить четыре вылазки в дом, где засели три отчаянных боевика "Бригад Иззедина аль-Кассама", пишет газета The Independent.
Этот эпизод, изложенный Абедом Раббо, "дает ясное представление о реальном взаимодействии между израильскими военными и боевиками "Хамаса". И хотя он помогает подкрепить утверждения Израиля о том, что "Хамас" действовал в населенных районах, он также говорит о том, что его собственное командование готово использовать мирных жителей в качестве живых щитов для защиты израильских войск", пишет автор статьи Дональд Макинтайр.
В статье рассказывается о том, как израильские солдаты 5 января вошли в дом Абеда Раббо, увели его семью и в течение ближайших двух дней заставили его совершить четыре вылазки в соседний дом, где засели боевики, чтобы забрать у них оружие, если они уже мертвы.
В конце концов, солдаты с помощью бульдозера снесли дом, в котором находились боевики, не желавшие сдаваться. Прежде чем уйти, Абед Раббо ясно увидел свой разрушенный дом и тела трех боевиков "Хамаса" под обломками соседнего здания, пишет газета.
Источник: Independent
My terror as a human shield: The story of Majdi Abed Rabbo
As battle raged in Gaza, Israeli soldiers forced Majdi Abed Rabbo to risk his life as a go-between in the hunt for three Hamas fighters. This is his story...
By Donald Macintyre in Jabalya, Gaza
Friday, 30 January 2009
Majdi Abed Raboh's house is in ruins following Israeli attacks
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After yet another fierce, 45-minute gun battle, Majdi Abed Rabbo was ordered once again to negotiate his perilous way across the already badly-damaged roof of his house, through the jagged gap in the wall and slowly down the stairs towards the first-floor apartment in the rubble-strewn house next door. Not knowing if the men were dead or alive, he shouted for the second time that day: "I'm Majdi. Don't be afraid."
All three men – with Kalashnikov AK-47 rifles, wearing camouflage and headbands bearing the insignia of the Izzedine el Qassam brigades – were still alive, though one was badly injured and persuaded Mr Abed Rabbo to tighten the improvised bandage round his right arm. The youngest – perhaps 21 – was taking cover behind fallen masonry from where he could see the Israeli troops who had sent the visitor. Nervously, Mr Abed Rabbo told them: "They sent me back so I can take your weapons. They told me you are dead." It was the youngest who replied defiantly: "Tell the officer, 'If you're a man come up here'."
When the soldiers had arrived at about 10am, Mr Abed Rabbo, 40, had no inkling that over the next 24 hours he would make four heart-stopping trips, shuttling across increasingly dangerous terrain between the Israeli forces and the three besieged but determined Hamas militants who had become his unwelcome next-door neighbours. He would recall every detail of an episode which, in the telling, resembles the more melodramatic kind of war movie, but which was all too real for a man who by the end had lost his house and thought (wrongly) that his wife and children were dead. He had also witnessed at too close quarters the last stand of the men from the Qassam brigades in the face of relentless Israeli ground attacks and Apache helicopter fire.
Civilians were not killed in this episode, as they were in all too many during Operation Cast Lead. Instead, it offers a rare and detailed glimpse of an actual engagement between the Israeli military and Hamas fighters. And while it helps to reinforce Israel's contention that Hamas operates in built-up civilian areas, it also suggests that its own commanders were prepared to use civilians as human shields to protect Israeli troops.
It is one man's version of what happened, of course. But as the soldiers would find out when they checked later, Mr Abed Rabbo is a former member of the Fatah-dominated intelligence, still being paid by the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah. He believes the Hamas gunmen had no right to be in the house next door. But he also strongly objects to the use made of him by the Israeli military. "I could have been killed," he explained.
The soldiers arrived on 5 January, the second day of their ground offensive, with a Palestinian he knew only by his family name of Daher. After telling him to remove his trousers and roll up his shirt to establish he had no weapons, the soldiers told him to bring out his wife, Wijdan, 39, and family. Then, with
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