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Hundreds of thousands march in London, demanding end to Gaza genocide (www.middleeasteye.net)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21087304

By MEE staff Published date: 5 October 2024 19:45 BST

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[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why is Hamas never blamed for using human shields?

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Israel justifies nearly every attack on civilians that way

Human Shields

Hamas:

Intentionally utilizing the presence of civilians or other protected persons to render certain areas immune from military attack is prohibited under international law. Amnesty International was not able to establish whether or not the fighters’ presence in the camps was intended to shield themselves from military attacks. However, under international humanitarian law, even if one party uses “human shields”, or is otherwise unlawfully endangering civilians, this does not absolve the opposing party from complying with its obligations to distinguish between military objectives and civilians or civilian objects, to refrain from carrying out indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks, and to take all feasible precautions to spare civilians and civilian objects.

Israel:

Additionally, there is extensive independent verification of Israel using Palestinians as Human Shields:

Deliberate Attacks on Civilians

Israel deliberately targets civilian areas. From in general with the Dahiya Doctrine to multiple systems deployed in Gaza to do so:

Israel also targets Israeli Soldiers and Civilians to prevent them being leveraged as hostages, known as the Hannibal Directive. Which was also used on Oct 7th.