Editing Human shield (section)

==== 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine ====
In the [[Mandatory Palestine|British mandate of Palestine]], Arab civilians and rebels who were captured by the British during the [[1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine|Great Arab Revolt]] were frequently taken and placed on "pony trucks", "on which hostages could be made to sit"; these were placed at the front of trains to deter other rebels from detonating explosives on the railways.<ref name="Gordon Perugini" />{{rp|198–199}}<ref>[[Eugene Rogan]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=16U0mEbf4nAC&pg=PT255  ''The Arabs: A History''], 2012 p.255.</ref><ref>Charles Anderson, [https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/C0A6393722B3B92BEB55382B27ED6467/S0010417521000219a.pdf/when-palestinians-became-human-shields-counterinsurgency-racialization-and-the-great-revolt-19361939.pdf 'When Palestinians Became Human Shields: Counterinsurgency, Racialization, and the Great Revolt (1936–1939),'] [[Comparative Studies in Society and History]] 2021, vol. 63 issue 3 625–654.</ref> A soldier with the [[Manchester Regiment]] described the technique:
<blockquote>They would "go down to Acre jail and borrow say five rebels, three rebels, and you'd sit them on the bonnet, so the guy up in the hill could see an Arab on the truck so he wouldn't blow it... If [the rebel] was unlucky the truck coming up behind would hit him. But nobody bothered to pick the bits up. They were left."<ref name="Apology" >[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63145992'UK apology sought for British war crimes in Palestine,']{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} [[BBC News]] 7 September 2022.</ref></blockquote>

The practice began on 24 September 1936 when Brigadier [[John Fullerton Evetts|J. F. Evetts]] reacted to Palestinian rebel attacks against British positions in [[Nablus]] by forcing the city mayor, [[Suleiman Tuqan|Suleiman Abdul Razzaq Tuqan]], to sit exposed on the roof of a garrison building under fire, as a 'high-value human shield'. Tuqan returned his [[Order of the British Empire]] commendation in protest.<ref>Anderson, 2021 p.625</ref>