Human Shield
Updated 2023-11-22
2023-11-06 Here are 3 Ways the U.S. Media Tries to Justify Israel’s Attacks on Civilians in Gaza From the use of terms such as “human shields,” “terror tunnels” and “Hamas strongholds,” media outlets are covering for Israel’s devastating bombing campaign on Palestinians.
if the “terror tunnels” are everywhere, and are legitimate military targets, then any civilian standing in any Gazan population center is little more than a Hamas “human shield. A variation on the “terror tunnel” panic is the idea that Israel reluctantly kills civilians because Hamas uses them as “human shields.” This was casually asserted by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) last week while she lamented the deaths of hundreds killed by an Israeli airstrike targeting Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. The short version is: Even if one accepts the premise that Hamas is using human shields, from an ethical and legal standpoint, Israel is compelled by international law to not kill hundreds of civilians at a time in order to target, allegedly, one “Hamas commander.” That is a war crime.
The claim that Hamas is “using human shields” is a specific charge that requires a specific standard of evidence to prove, none of which has been publicly provided by Israel thus far to any media outlets or third-party human rights groups of any kind. Israel’s definition of “human shields” is simply “a combatant may or may not be in the same general area as hundreds of civilians.” Israel rarely bothers naming these combatants, much less providing evidence that they were in the area in question after said area has been reduced to rubble and corpses. https://inthesetimes.com/article/israel-palestine-media-hamas-human-shields-war-civilians-gaza
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