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There are lots of unsavory things about the real state of Israel, things that many Israel defenders steer clear of, minimize or even flat out deny. These are things that never make it to American TV screens, the censoring lobby takes care of that.
So first up - the IDF forcing Palestinian civilians to wear IDF uniforms, first investigated and reported by the Israeli paper Haaretz
If you don't have a Haaretz subscription, no worries, The Guardian carried the same story:

So first up - the IDF forcing Palestinian civilians to wear IDF uniforms, first investigated and reported by the Israeli paper Haaretz
If you don't have a Haaretz subscription, no worries, The Guardian carried the same story:
Israeli soldiers are using Palestinian civilians as human shields in Gaza to enter and clear tunnels and buildings they suspect may have been booby-trapped, a leading Israeli NGO and newspaper have reported.
The practice was so widespread across different units fighting in Gaza that it could in effect be considered a “protocol”, said Nadav Weiman, the executive director of Breaking the Silence, a group founded by Israeli combat veterans to document military abuses.
The group has collected testimony describing the practice from veterans of the 10-month war in Gaza. The accounts they have heard match those reported in an investigation by the newspaper Haaretz, which claimed that the chief of staff’s office was aware of the practice.
“The senior ranks know about it,” one source said to have taken part in finding civilians to serve as human shields told the paper. “Our lives are more important than their lives,” Haaretz quoted commanders telling their soldiers.
Their hands are tied together and a camera is attached to their bodies as they go in. “Palestinians are told: ‘Do one mission of … a [tunnel] shaft and you’re free,’” Haaretz quoted one soldier saying.
Afterwards, the men are reportedly released to join their families – underlining to the soldiers who spoke to Haaretz and Breaking the Silence that they were civilians who did not pose any military threat and had been detained only for the clearance operations.
Footage of Palestinian civilians, including some in IDF uniform, being sent into devastated buildings was obtained by Al Jazeera and broadcast in July.