A newly leaked photograph shows two blindfolded elderly Palestinian men from Beit Lahia in Gaza hours before Israeli forces killed them in November 2024, according to Palestinian journalist Younis Tirawi, who published the image.
The photograph shows Israeli military personnel standing between two blindfolded men, whom Tirawi identified in a post on X as Nadi Marouf and Ali Marouf.
He said the photograph was taken hours before their martyrdom and that the two men were “used as human bait and then executed.”
In an earlier post in October 2025, Tirawi had said that troops from the 92nd battalion of the Kfir brigade kidnaped the men from Beit Lahia and used them as human shields for several days.
“Israeli troops from the 92nd battalion of the Kfir brigade abducted two elderly Palestinians from Beit Lahia and used them as human shields for days before killing them,” Tirawi wrote.
The Palestine Chronicle reported in October 2025 that the men had been detained for several days before being released near al-Tawam rotary and shot dead.
The report said that images showed the men stripped to their underwear, with one apparently having his hands tied behind his back. It added that they had been forced to enter buildings before Israeli soldiers stormed them.
Rami Abdu, chairman of the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, said at the time that after being used as human shields, their relatives found them dead three days later.
The newly shared photograph joins a series of images and testimonies that confirm the exposure of Palestinian civilians to different forms of abuse during Israeli military operations in northern Gaza.
Independent reporting has previously documented incidents in which Palestinian civilians were forced to enter buildings and tunnels ahead of Israeli soldiers to inspect for explosives or resistance fighters.
In May 2025, the Israeli occupation army claimed it was investigating several such incidents and claimed that using Palestinians as human shields or coercing them into participating in military operations was strictly prohibited under its orders.
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