Israeli military accused of abusing injured Palestinian man

By Nathan Morley

The UN Special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories has accused the Israeli military of abusing an injured Palestinian man as a human shield and ignoring international law.

The Israeli military admitted its forces broken protocol by strapping a wounded Palestinian man to the front of their vehicle during a raid in Jenin, a city in the West Bank.

The incident was filmed on a mobile phone, and widely shared on social media. An Israeli army statement said the man had been wounded in gun fight during the raid, in which he was a suspect.

Later, the injured man's family reportedly said that when they requested an ambulance, the army took him, bound him to the hood of their jeep and sped off.

The individual was ultimately delivered to the Red Crescent for medical care. The IDF – the Israeli Defense Forces - said the incident would be investigated.

There has been a swell in violence in the West Bank since October last year. The United Nations says over 480 Palestinians have been killed in conflict-related events in the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Israelis have converged in Tel Aviv to demand a ceasefire deal and the return of captives held by Hamas.

Reportedly, it was largest anti-government march since the Gaza war erupted. Video shows fights and people being held as police – some on horseback – tried to move demonstrators off the main motorway.

Elsewhere, a leader from the Islamic Group was killed over the weekend in an Israeli airstrike targeting a vehicle in the village of Al-Khyara, located in the Western Bekaa District of eastern Lebanon.

Tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border have escalated in the last six months. Meanwhile, a Shiite militia in Iraq on Sunday claimed responsibility for joint drone attacks with Yemen's Houthi group on five ships in Haifa port in northern Israel and the Mediterranean.