Israeli troops shooting children in Gaza
• Victims were scavenging for rubble, say rights groups
• Attacks allegedly took place outside 300-metre buffer zone
Two Israeli soldiers have been found guilty of using a nine-year-old as a human shield to check suspected booby traps while they kept a safe distance.
The boy was plucked from a crowd and ordered to check bags in the 2008-2009 war in the Gaza Strip.
The boy opened a bag belonging to his family, but when he failed to open another, the soldiers pulled him back and shot at it, endangering everyone present.
• Victims were scavenging for rubble, say rights groups
• Attacks allegedly took place outside 300-metre buffer zone
Israeli soldiers are routinely shooting at Gazans well beyond the official 300 metre-wide no-go area.
Defence for Children International (DCI) has documented 10 cases of children aged 13 to 17 being shot in a three-month period between 50 and 800 metres from the border.
The creation of the no-go area has forced farmers to abandon land and residents to leave homes for fear of coming under fire.
Last month a 91-year-old man and two teenage boys were killed while harvesting olives outside the official zone when Israeli troops fired shells.
"The army knows the kids are there to collect. They watch them every day and they know they have no weapons," said Mohammed Abu Rukbi, a fieldworker with DCI.