Two Israeli solders have been convicted of using a nine-year-old Palestinian boy as a human shield by forcing him to search for suspected booby traps on their behalf in 2009 during the assault on Gaza. An attorney said the soldiers are being scapegoated by the Israeli military.

Ilan Katz: “These two soldiers are the ones who pay the price for the mistakes of senior people, and the system thinks that if they are convicted the world will get off Israel’s case. Whoever thinks this is severely mistaken.”