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Buried in the article: There is no evidence that Hamas and other militants force civilians to stay in areas that are under attack — the legal definition of a h

Buried in the article: There is no evidence that Hamas and other militants force civilians to stay in areas that are under attack — the legal definition of a human shield under international law.

27182818284 12y ago
The debate on Democracy Now between Noura Erakat and Joshua Hantman was pretty chilling in the same way. NOURA ERAKAT: ...As to the human shields, Israel continuously and repeatedly uses this mantra of Palestinians used as human shields. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Israeli Breaking the Silence, a group of former soldiers, have all testified to the same— JOSHUA HANTMAN: Hamas admit to it. Hamas say they do it. They’re proud of it. NOURA ERAKAT: —to the same allegation—reports about this same allegation—and I encourage listeners and viewers to look up those reports—and have disproved that Palestinians have been used as human shields. Hamas might ask Palestinians to be human shields, but are Palestinians robots? Do they not have minds and hearts, and care for their children? Why would they—why dehumanize them and accuse them of mindlessly listening to Hamas, to whom they protest against? This is a dehumanizing discourse, and we should reject it vehemently. Hantman's entire side of the interview looked like a studied attack to try to white-wash deaths with pay #6732B from some intelligence playbook. It is pretty interesting. I'd encourage people to give a listen or watch the video http://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/11/gaza_debate_as_palestinian_deaths_top http://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/11/gaza_debate_as_palesti...
cpncrunch 12y ago
Well I guess the civilians don't have much choice when they're in a hospital. Also, the fact that these sites appears to be in highly populated civilian areas seems to be guaranteed to generate civilian casualties (which happened today: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/24/us-mideast-gaza-idUSKBN0FT06I20140724 http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/24/us-mideast-gaza-id...).

Buried in the article: There is no evidence that Hamas and other militants force civilians to stay in areas that are under attack — the legal definition of a human shield under international law.

27182818284 12y ago

The debate on Democracy Now between Noura Erakat and Joshua Hantman was pretty chilling in the same way. NOURA ERAKAT: ...As to the human shields, Israel continuously and repeatedly uses this mantra of Palestinians used as human shields. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Israeli Breaking the Silence, a group of former soldiers, have all testified to the same— JOSHUA HANTMAN: Hamas admit to it. Hamas say they do it. They’re proud of it. NOURA ERAKAT: —to the same allegation—reports about this same allegation—and I encourage listeners and viewers to look up those reports—and have disproved that Palestinians have been used as human shields. Hamas might ask Palestinians to be human shields, but are Palestinians robots? Do they not have minds and hearts, and care for their children? Why would they—why dehumanize them and accuse them of mindlessly listening to Hamas, to whom they protest against? This is a dehumanizing discourse, and we should reject it vehemently. Hantman's entire side of the interview looked like a studied attack to try to white-wash deaths with pay #6732B from some intelligence playbook. It is pretty interesting. I'd encourage people to give a listen or watch the video http://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/11/gaza_debate_as_palestinian_deaths_top http://www.democracynow.org/2014/7/11/gaza_debate_as_palesti...

cpncrunch 12y ago

Well I guess the civilians don't have much choice when they're in a hospital. Also, the fact that these sites appears to be in highly populated civilian areas seems to be guaranteed to generate civilian casualties (which happened today: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/24/us-mideast-gaza-idUSKBN0FT06I20140724 http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/24/us-mideast-gaza-id...).