Israeli army reservist: Israel not to blame for killing women and children used as ‘human shields’

Our enemy “doesn’t have the right to live”. Ezra Yachin, a 95-year-old Israeli army reservist, said Israel is not to blame for the killing of women and children used as ‘human shields’ by Hamas in an interview with Channel 4 News on Sunday. Yachin is one of more than 300,000 army reservists mobilised by Israel since war broke out with Hamas in Gaza over two weeks ago, and serves to “motivate” soldiers, according to recent reports. Namely, Yachin was involved in the Deir Yassin massacre on 9 April 1948, when Zionist militiamen went house to house, killing more than 100 people in the small Palestinian village near Jerusalem, despite having agreed to an earlier truce. The massacre, amongst other atrocities, led to the forced expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland in what would come to be known as the Nakba, or catastrophe Subscribe to our channel: Subscribe to MEE Telegram channel to stay up to date: Middle East Eye Website: Follow us on TikTok: @middleeasteye Follow us on Instagram: Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: