GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Majid Rabah, 11, says he will always remember the "black day" that Israeli soldiers ordered him to open bags they thought were rigged with explosives.
"Every moment I remember what happened," he said in his home in Gaza City's Tel Al-Hawwa neighborhood Tuesday.
An Israeli military court gave a suspended sentence and a demotion Sunday to the two soldiers who used Majid as a human shield, in a ruling he and his family said did not do justice to the trauma.
"When will the child forget what happened? This cannot be compared to three month's [suspended] sentence," said Majid's mother, Fatima Rabah, 49. She added that she didn't expect justice from the Israeli court system, and would prefer that an international court take up the matter.
"This will give Israeli soldiers a license to do whatever they like to Palestinian children. Many Palestinian children have died from Israeli guns and no one punished them," she said. Majid himself said he was neither surprised nor satisfied by the Israeli court's ruling.
Human rights advocates also said Sunday's ruling sent the message that Israeli soldiers could violate Palestinian's rights without consequences.
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