Elderly Men Used as Human Shields by Israeli Forces in Gaza Found Executed

October 29, 2025 News
Two elderly Palestinians who were arrested by Israeli forces from Beit Lahia were used as human shields and later executed. (Photo: via social media)

Two elderly Palestinian men, reportedly used as human shields by Israeli soldiers, were found executed.

Day after day, new images and testimonies emerge, exposing the crimes of the Israeli occupation army against civilians in the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera Arabic reported on Wednesday.

Among the most egregious of these crimes are harrowing scenes showing Israeli soldiers using elderly and wounded Palestinian civilians as human shields. These civilians were stripped naked, forced into homes before the soldiers, and placed in front of military vehicles, the report stated.

Detained in 2024

One such incident is that of two elderly Palestinians, both in their 70s, who were detained from Beit Lahia in northern Gaza in 2024.

The two have been identified in a photo shared by the Israel Genocide Tracker page on X as Nadi Abdel Latif Marouf and Ali Muhammad Marouf. In the image, they are seen stripped to their underwear, while one appears to have his hands tied behind his back, at the site of a destroyed building. They appear to be led into the ruined site by the soldiers.

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They were reportedly detained for several days under army guard before being released at the Al-Tawam roundabout. After allowing them to walk only a few meters, they were summarily executed by gunfire, the report stated.

Ramy Abdu, chairman of the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, said on X that “After being used as human shields, their relatives found them after three days and they had been executed.”

Hind Rajab Foundation

The Israel Genocide Tracker group said it has submitted a case to the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) “against the Kfir Shimshon Battalion for kidnapping and using Palestinians, including Ali and Nadi Marouf, and another elderly man who walked with a crutch as human shields before executing them in northern Gaza between Sep and Dec 2024.”

Dyab Abou Jahjah, General Director of the HRF, said the soldiers “used these civilians as human shields and then executed them.”

He said, “The level of depravity and disregard for human life and the laws of war is unprecedented.”

Abou Jahjah said the organization was “now in possession of the names of all commanders and soldiers involved.” Several of them are dual nationals, he added.

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The images sparked widespread shock and anger on social media platforms with users saying that this crime adds a new chapter to the record of Israeli violations in Gaza, where the Palestinian body itself has become a tool exploited to protect the aggressor, the report stated.

(AJA, PC)

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2 Comments

  1. That’s a bad look for a “fierce” battalion: hiding behind elderly men because the “IDF” is terrified by Hamas?! And then kill them, at the back: ultimate cowardice. And they fill their social media proudly showing the world “The IDF is a piss poor gang of cowards!” And the US is hiding behind “Israel”!?

  2. Level Israel.
    Why is it still standing? Dondolf Trump needs to grow a pair, and bomb the sh!t out of them. He made himself look like even more of an idiot by claiming he brought peace. The Israeli Nazis don’t want peace, they only want to murder more children. Most of the Jewish Nazis in their government have already stated that they don’t care what Washington says, they’ll continue to kill whomever they want.
    Level Israel.
    ” death, death to the IDF “

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