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The Israel Defense Forces' use of Palestinians—who are often handcuffed and forced to wear IDF uniforms—as human shields prompted the leading U.S. Muslim advocacy group on Monday to call on the Biden administration to investigate what experts say is a war crime by the No. 1 recipient of American military aid. International law prohibits the use of combatants or civilians as human shields .
One 35-year-old Palestinian man, who declined to be identified by his real name for fear of his life, told The Guardian that 'the Israeli soldiers put a GPS tracker on my hand and told me: 'If you try to run away, we will shoot you. We will know where you are.'' 'I was asked to go to knock on the doors of four houses and two schools and ask people to leave—women and children first and then the men,' he added. 'At one of the schools, the situation was very dangerous.
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