Speaking of hospitals ...
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"PALESTINIAN" ARAB ISLAMIC GENOCIDAL REGIME KILLINGS ITS PEOPLE SO PALLYWEID CAN BE BOOSTED
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Biden: Palestinians being used as 'human shields'.
The Washington Post
Oct 14, 2023 — President Biden accused Hamas of using Palestinian civilians as "human shields" at the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner on Oct. 14.
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Florida Republican urges defunding UN Human Rights Council until UN condemns Hamas.
The bill already has several cosponsors, including Florida Democrat Rep Jared Moskowitz.
Houston Keene By Houston Keene , Thomas Phippen. Fox News, October 31, 2023.
..."The United States should not fund the UN Human Rights Council until it stops targeting our closest ally," Luna said. "The UN must unequivocally condemn Hamas’s utter disregard for human life and the terror they are inflicting on Israelis and the innocent Palestinians they use as human shields."
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., introduced a bill on Tuesday to strip the U.N. Human Rights Council of funding until they condemn the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas.
www.foxnews.com
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U.S. Says Hamas Operates Out of Gaza Hospitals, Endorsing Israel’s Allegations
John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said that intelligence from U.S.-generated sources supported Israel’s claim that Hamas has tunnels under Al-Shifa and other hospitals.
By Michael D. Shear.
reporting from Washington.
NY Times. Nov. 14, 2023
John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said that intelligence from U.S.-generated sources supported Israel’s claim that Hamas has tunnels under Al-Shifa and other hospitals.
www.nytimes.com
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Hamas use of the civilian population as human shields and Gaza’s civilian facilities for terrorism.
Published: 18/11/2023.
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Hamas are cruelly turning hospitals into targets.
The Telegraph.
16 nov 2023 — The international community should direct its outrage at the terrorists systematically using civilians as
human shields.
The international community should direct its outrage at the terrorists systematically using civilians as human shields
www.telegraph.co.uk
Hamas cannot be allowed to use hospitals as fortresses.
The Telegraph.
Nov 14, 2023—
Hamas's tactic of placing itself in and around hospitals in Gaza is despicable. We cannot encourage it by allowing this evil organisation .
Using patients as human shields is despicable. It must be prevented
www.telegraph.co.uk
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The Pinsker Centre.
REPORT: Hamas and Human Shields
23 Nov, 2023.
Since the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas after the October 7th Massacres, Hamas has consistently used tactics that put unarmed civilians at risk of death or injury. Hamas has a long history of using the people of Gaza as human shields to protect their terrorist leaders from Israeli strikes, and even operates its command center under the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
How has Hamas used civilians to protect its leaders?
Since Hamas took power in the Gaza Strip in 2007 after a bloody war with Fatah, the terrorist organization has utilized human shield tactics such as putting entrances to terror tunnels in residential buildings, hiding rockets to fire indiscriminately at Israeli civilians in schools, hospitals, and mosques, and even publicly calling on its own civilians to climb onto the roofs of Hamas officials’ homes to ward off Israeli strikes.
As the current war expands in the Gaza Strip, Hamas has not strayed away from its traditional tactics. In one instance, it launched a barrage of rockets from a diplomatic building, which was just across the street from a UN-run school for Gaza children. The IDF has revealed an increasing and troubling use of UN facilities for its war against Israel– although the UN has condemned Hamas’s use of the tactic since the 2012 war, the terror group has continued using UN schools, offices, and hospitals to stash and launch rockets at Israeli civilians.
The Gazan people are victims of this war, but not from Israeli aggression. Hamas repeatedly puts the people of Gaza in the line of fire to protect its own terrorists, and the intricate tunnel network under Gaza reflects that. While the terrorists get to hide in bunkers from bombardment, the Gazans are indefensibly shuttled above command centers to deter Israeli airstrikes and to create mass casualty events. Ultimately, Hamas has weaponized the innocent people of Gaza and turned them into expendable pawns to advance terrorism.
Has Hamas broken international law by using human shields?
International humanitarian law is unequivocally against the use of human shields, and Hamas’s actions even invalidate protective status that is normally given to civilian locations in war. The 4th Hague Convention, one of the tenets of Treaty Law on the laws of armed conflict, clearly states that protected status should be granted to cultural, religious, medical, and other civilian sites, but it also clearly states that such protection is only given “provided they are not being used at the time for military purposes.” Moreover, the Geneva Conventions also state similar directives: civilian, cultural, and medical facilities are protected as long as they are not used “to commit, outside their humanitarian duties, acts harmful to the enemy.” Although certainly not the fault of Gazan civilians, many of their crucial humanitarian sites are now weaponized by Hamas as military targets. Putting rockets in hospitals, mosques, and schools only creates unnecessary hurt for the people of Gaza, but this is due to the actions of Hamas.
Sources and further reading:
“Exposed: Hamas’s hospital hideouts– a grave abuse of Gaza’s medical lifelines,” The Jerusalem Post, 8 November 2023, [
Exposed: Hamas's hospital hideouts - a grave abuse of Gaza's medical lifelines - editorial].
“Hamas’ use of human shields in Gaza,” NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, 6 June 2019, [
https://stratcomcoe.org/cuploads/pfiles/hamas_human_shields.pdf].
Pamela Falk, “Israel says these photos show how Hamas places weapons in and near U.N. facilities in Gaza, including schools,” CBS News, 8 November 2023, [
Israel says these photos show how Hamas places weapons in and near U.N. facilities in Gaza, including schools].
Pamela Falk, “Israel says these photos show how Hamas places weapons in and near U.N. facilities in Gaza, including schools”
“Palestinian Lives Matter, Except to Hamas,” The Wall Street Journal, 16 October 2023, [
https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-hamas-gaza-civilians-united-nations-1222797b].
Convention (IV) respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land and its annex: Regulations concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land. Sec. 2, Chap. 1, Art. 21, 27. The Hague, 18 October 1907.
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Part II. Geneva, 12 August 1949, pp. 174-178.
“Since the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas after the October 7th Massacres, Hamas has consistently used tactics that put unarmed civilians at risk of death or injury. Hamas has a long history of using the people of Gaza as human shields to protect their terrorist leaders from Israeli st
www.pinskercentre.org
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What Can We Possibly Say to the Children of Gaza?
By Nicholas Kristof. NY Times. Feb 3, 2024 — Any government would have struck back, and Hamas maximized the suffering of civilians by using them as human shields...
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We've got to stop believing Hamas' lies about civilian ...
The Telegraph.
19 Feb 2024 — War is hell. But the IDF are killing 'astonishingly' few civilians, say the experts.
War is hell. But the IDF are killing ‘astonishingly’ few civilians, say the experts
www.telegraph.co.uk
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Martyrs Inc. in Rafah as Hamas gets just what it wants: civilian deaths.
By Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet.
NY Post. May 28, 2024.
Savagely, Martyrs Inc. is open for business in Rafah — exactly as intended by Hamas and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sponsors in Tehran and overlords in Moscow.
nypost.com
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UN: Funding, word count limits kept Hamas human shields off blacklist.
António Guterres put the Israeli security forces on the annual "list of shame."
Mike Wagenheim.
(June 16, 2024 / JNS)
The United Nations’ point person on a report blacklisting Israeli forces’ treatment of Palestinian children says the decision to minimize Hamas’s use of human shields is partially a result of low funding and allowable word counts.
António Guterres put the Israeli security forces on the annual "list of shame."
www.jns.org
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Gaza Chief’s Brutal Calculation: Civilian Bloodshed Will Help Hamas.
Yahya Sinwar’s correspondence with compatriots and mediators shows he is confident that Hamas can outlast Israel
By Summer Said and Rory Jones. WSJ.
June 10, 2024.
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Max Boot:
I’ve read student protesters’ manifestos. This is ugly stuff. Clueless, too.
Cosplaying pro-Palestinian activists on campuses are repeating the mistakes of the 1960s.
Washington Post. May 6, 2024.
As a journalist for the Daily Californian, the university’s independent, student-run newspaper, I covered a lot of protests for causes as varied as divesting from South Africa, ending U.S. proxy wars in Central America, getting the ROTC off campus and staying out of the 1991 Gulf War (“no blood for oil”). But underlying all of the transitory passions of the day, I detected a powerful nostalgia for the 1960s — that heady era when mere students could imagine they were heroic figures in the vanguard of historical change. It often felt as if the students of my generation were simply historical reenactors of past glories for whom the act of protest was more important than the causes for which they protested.
... today’s pro-Palestinian protesters are their own worst enemies; they have even been reenacting some of the excesses of the past, such as briefly occupying Columbia’s Hamilton Hall last week before police cleared them out. The students are not succeeding in forcing universities to divest from Israel, and even if they were, it wouldn’t have much impact on Israel’s economy.
Instead, the demonstrations are making an in-kind contribution to former president Donald Trump’s campaign by fostering an erroneous impression that the country is out of control and requires his authoritarian rule to restore “law and order.” The damage will only grow if demonstrators disrupt this year’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August as they did the one there in 1968...
The protesters are usually described as being opposed to the war in Gaza and in favor of Palestinian rights. In truth, the groups organizing these protests are opposed to the very existence of what they call the “Zionist project.” As a manifesto from Columbia University Apartheid Divest, endorsed by 94 student groups, states: “The brutal onslaught over the last month is but another chapter in over 75 years of violence, dispossession, and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people.” No mention, naturally, of all the violence perpetrated against Israel, including the horrifying Hamas attack on Oct. 7 and the Iranian drone and missile strike on April 13.
The manifesto goes on to endorse “the Right of Return” for Palestinian refugees who have fled Israel since its creation in 1948. Allowing 7 million Palestinians — most of them the descendants of refugees — to move to Israel (with its 7 million Jewish and 2 million Arab residents) would be a death knell for Israel as a Jewish state. The protesters’ slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is a call not for a two-state solution but for a single Palestinian state — and a mass exodus of Jews.
Note how one-sided all of this is: While denouncing alleged Israeli atrocities[sic], the manifesto has not one word of censure for Hamas or its brutal tactics, which include seizing hostages and perpetrating sexual violence, in addition to committing wholesale murder. Indeed, even though the protesters claim to care about Palestinian lives, they do not denounce Hamas for stealing international aid to build its tunnels and missiles or for using civilians as human shields. They call for Israel to stop fighting but not for Hamas to release its hostages or surrender.
The protesters’ agenda does not end in the Middle East; indeed, the movement’s ideologues see Israel as merely an “imperial outpost in the Arab world,” even though Jews have lived in the area since antiquity.
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Hamas tries to prevent civilians fleeing danger in northern Gaza.
As troops urge Gazans to leave, many remain fearing travel through areas under IDF control and after threats from Hamas that seeks to use them as human shields while forces hunt them down.
Einav Halabi. Ynet. Oct 10, 2024.
As troops urge Gazans to leave, many remain fearing travel through areas under IDF control and after threats from Hamas that seeks to use them as human shields while forces hunt them down
www.ynetnews.com
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Hamas, Palestinian Authority trade blows over human shields, West Bank operations
Fatah said it wouldn't allow Hamas "to reproduce its activities in the West Bank" and that the terror group jeopardized the Palestinian people.
By Mathilda Heller. JPost. January 11, 2025.
Fatah said it wouldn't allow Hamas "to reproduce its activities in the West Bank" and that the terror group jeopardized the Palestinian people.
www.jpost.com
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Hamas’ rule in Gaza has been disastrous for both Arabs and Israelis.
Commentary.
By Ariel and Rena Cohen.
The Washington Times, January 28, 2025.
Hamas’ rule in Gaza has been disastrous for both Arabs and Israelis. Hamas will continue to be an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, a worldwide Islamist group intent on rebuilding a caliphate, an Islamic empire. These terrorists and their paymasters will not abandon jihad, a “holy war” to destroy the Jewish state, kill the Jews, and then turn against Europe and the United States.
Almost immediately after the ceasefire was announced, masked and uniform-clad terrorists emerged from Gaza’s tunnels, weapons in hand, reclaiming control of the strip. They have already killed six locals and shot a score more. They are poised to exploit the remaining hostages and the Gaza civilians as their human shields. They will return to seizing aid and selling it to the people at exorbitant prices while glorifying the bloodshed, torture, rape, violence and abductions of Oct. 7. 2023. They have already promised to repeat it...
President Trump has floated the idea of relocating Gazans to other Muslim countries so that reconstruction can get underway.
www.washingtontimes.com
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Emirati Political Analyst: We Must Remove The Extremist Hamas From Power In Gaza...
MEMRI. April 21, 2025
Palestinians, United Arab Emirates | Special Dispatch No. 11935
In his March 22, 2025 column in the Saudi news portal Elaph, titled "Hamas and the Strategy of Collective Suicide," Emirati political analyst Salem Al-Ketbi accused Hamas of espousing an extremist ideology and of provoking Israel into an all-out war in Gaza despite being aware that it is the Gazan civilians who would pay the price. As part of its extremist outlook, he said, Hamas uses civilians as human shields, places its military facilities in dense population centers and in hospitals and schools, commandeers the humanitarian aid delivered to Gaza and uses the suffering of the Gazans to gain political leverage – all while its leaders live abroad in fancy hotels and villas.
In his March 22, 2025 column in the Saudi news portal Elaph, titled "Hamas and the Strategy of Collective Suicide," Emirati political analyst Salem Al-Ketbi accused Hamas of espousing an extremist ideology and of provoking Israel into an all-out war in Gaza despite being aware that it is the...
www.memri.org
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The People of Gaza Are Human Shields for Hamas.
An IDF soldier escorts a Palestinian child to safety.
Hamas’s Human Shields: The Truth the World Ignores.
Sabine Srerk. Mar 8, 2025.
In a world where truth is a matter of perspective rather than fact, a strange and dangerous illusion takes hold. The world has seen terror before, but never has it been so skillfully disguised as victimhood. Hamas, a group known for its brutality, rules over Gaza with an iron grip—not as protectors of their people, but as their captors. They do not build schools to educate or hospitals to heal. Instead, they build tunnels, stretching for miles beneath the city.
But these tunnels are not for sheltering civilians from war; they are for smuggling weapons, for ambushes, for terror. Yet when war comes, the civilians have nowhere to run. Hamas makes sure of that. They fire rockets from schoolyards, knowing return fire will bring destruction. They store weapons in hospitals, ensuring that any military response leads to tragic images of wounded innocents. They turn their own people into shields, yet the world only sees the suffering—not those responsible for it.
And the world believes…
When Hamas hijacks aid trucks, stealing food meant for their own people, they blame Israel for the famine. When their tunnels remain empty of refugees but full of armed militants, they cry of Israeli cruelty. When their leaders live in luxury abroad while their people starve, they point the finger not at themselves, but at the Jews. And the world believes…
Journalists, afraid of reprisals, report only what Hamas allows them to see. Politicians, eager for approval, repeat the lies without question. Protesters in far-off cities, disconnected from reality, march in rage—against the very people fighting to defend themselves. And what about the hostages?
From the blog of Sabine Sterk at The Times of Israel
blogs.timesofisrael.com
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Trump Admin Eyes Fresh Hamas Sanctions Under 'Human Shield' Law That Biden Admin Ignored.
'The Treasury Department is proud to use every tool available to us' to target Iran-backed terrorists, spokesman says.
Adam Kredo. Washington Free Beacon
April 18, 2025.
The Trump administration is eyeing fresh sanctions on Hamas over the terror group's use of Gazan civilians as human shields—and using a longstanding law that the Biden administration ignored to do so, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
freebeacon.com
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Such a report’s appeal to the international community is unlikely to succeed so long as there is a strong current of opinion that questions the right of Israel to defend itself when attacked.
Rob Killick
— May 13, 2025
Such a report’s appeal to the international community is unlikely to succeed so long as there is a strong current of opinion that questions the right of Isr ...
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