'Used as human bait': Leaked image shows elderly Palestinian men before execution by Israeli forces

A leaked photograph has surfaced showing two blindfolded elderly Palestinian men from Beit Lahia, Gaza, shortly before Israeli forces killed them in November twenty twenty-four. Middle East Eye reports the image, published by Palestinian journalist Younis Tirawi, shows Israeli military personnel standing between the two men, whom Tirawi identified as Nadi Marouf and Ali Marouf. Tirawi said the men had been held as human shields for several days by troops from the Kfir Brigade's 92nd Battalion before being killed.

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