NOT one link! NOT ONE fact. All you did was voice your totally uninformed opinion!
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Hamas’ use of human shields in Gaza
Hamas’ most common uses of human shields include:
Firing rockets, artillery, and mortars from or in proximity to heavily populated civilian areas, often from or
near facilities which should be protected according to the Geneva Convention (e.g. schools, hospitals,
or mosques).
Locating military or security-related infrastructures such as HQs, bases, armouries, access routes,
lathes,3 or defensive positions within or in proximity to civilian areas.
Protecting terrorists’ houses and military facilities, or rescuing terrorists who were besieged or
warned by the IDF.4
Combating the IDF from or in proximity to residential and commercial areas, including using civilians for
intelligence gathering missions.
Hamas’ growing strategic distress in the face of recent geopolitical developments will probably push the organi- sation towards a more pragmatic strategy in the near future. However, the movement is simultaneously preparing itself for yet another round of armed conflict with Israel.
If this indeed happens, and in light of the success of the human shield practice, there is every reason to believe Hamas will continue resorting to the use of civilians as human shields.
1 Douglas Fischer, “Human Shields, Homicides, and House Fires: How a Domestic Law Analogy Can Guide International Law Regard- ing Human Shield Tactics in Armed Conflict,” American University Law Review 57, no. 2 (December 2007): 488.
http://digitalcommons. wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1029&context=aulr
2 This modus operandi is inspired by Hezbollah’s use of human shields in Lebanon. See: No Author, “Deadly Hezbollah Chess Match,” The Washington Times, 26 October 2006.
Deadly Hezbollah chess match
3 Lathes are used to produce weapons and ammunition, especially rockets and mortar shells.
4 The IDF
often uses telephone calls and leaflets to tell occupants to leave before striking. In some cases, the Israelis fire missiles with- out explosive warheads onto the roof to get Palestinians who had gathered there to leave. The Israelis call it “the knock on the roof.” Steven Erlanger and Fares Akram, “Israel Warns Gaza Targets by Phone and Leaflet,” The New York Times, 8 July 2014.
https://www. nytimes.com/2014/07/09/world/middleeast/by-phone-and-leaflet-israeli-attackers-warn-gazans.html?mcubz=1
5 Lawfare refers to the use of the legal system against an enemy, such as by damaging or delegitimising them, tying up their time or winning a public relations victory (From:
Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law | Vol 43 | Iss 1). Originally defined by Dunlap as ‘a method of warfare where [international] law is used as a means of realizing a military objective’, or ‘as a weapon of war’ (From: http:// people.duke.edu/~pfeaver.dunlap.pdf). The term is more broadly understood as the exploitation of real, perceived or even manipulated instances of international law violations in order to undermine the target nation and their values.
The IDF estimates that Hamas has about 10,000 rockets on hand.6
This infrastructure is concealed in private homes, tunnels, and public buildings such as mosques among 1.85 million Gazans, who reside in the relatively small area of 362 square kilometres, thus making Gaza the third most densely populated polity in the world.
Hamas (via spokespeople)
2006: “The citizens will continue defending their pride and houses and will continue to serve as human shields until the enemy will withdraw.”10
2014: “The fact that people are willing to sacrifice themselves against Israeli warplanes in order to protect their homes, I believe this strategy is proving itself. And we, Hamas, call on our people to adopt this practice.”11
2014: “Hamas despise those defeatist Palestinians that criticize the high number of civilian casualties. The resistance praises our people...we lead our people to death...I mean, to war.”12.
FACTS that dummies like you totally ignore!!