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Source: https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Reservists-on-Duty-give-testimonies-at-EU-for-the-first-time-581814

IDF Reservists Describe to EU How Palestinian Terrorists Use Children

(Jerusalem Post) Ilanit Chernick - Four IDF reservist combat soldiers testified at the EU Parliament in Brussels about the difficulty they experienced when confronted by Palestinian terrorists using human shields - mainly women and children. Noy Leyb described facing two Palestinian teenagers who had been sent to infiltrate into Israel from Gaza by Hamas to check the IDF's blind spots and try to attack soldiers. "It was 2 a.m. and the two 14-year-olds who had infiltrated through the border were shivering and shaking [from fear]. They were holding knives - not hiding them like terrorists usually do - and had been given a 'glorified story' to take knives and kill an IDF soldier." When he saw them he thought: "What are these kids doing here?...When I see kids being used in warfare, it sickens me." Noam Kampler recalled arresting the 15-year-old terrorist who murdered nurse and mother of four Daphna Meir in Otniel. "All I could think was: How can a 15-year-old kid stab a mother of four to death?" Czech EU Parliament Member Tomas Zdechovsky hosted the group.

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