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Report on Hamas' use of human shields in Gaza --------------------------------------------- https://stratcomcoe.org/cuploads/pfiles/hamas_human_shields.pdf

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 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.

* Combating the IDF from or in proximity to residential and commercial areas, including using civilians for intelligence gathering missions.

By engaging in these acts, Hamas employs a win-win scenario: if indeed the IDF uses kinetic power, and the number of civilian causalities surges, Hamas can use that as a weapon in the lawfare it conducts. It would be able to accuse
the IDF (and Israel) of committing war crimes, which in turn could result in the imposition of a wide array of sanctions. On the other hand, if the IDF limits
its use of military power in Gaza to avoid collateral damage, Hamas will be less
vulnerable to Israeli attacks, and thereby able to protect its assets while continuing to fight.


Lebanese MP Razi Al Hajj begs the Lebanese Government
to stop Hezbollah from using civilians as human shields ------------------------------------------------------- https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1846278645653860576


HRW says it: Hezbollah used UN as human shieldsAlready in 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------
"Hezbollah was responsible for numerous serious violations of the laws of war during its
conflict with Israel. Its fighters indiscriminately fired thousands of rockets into Israel"

"Hezbollah fighters fired rockets on an almost daily basis from the close proximity of UN
observer posts in southern Lebanon, an act of shielding, at least in part, that endangered
UNIFIL troops by drawing retaliatory Israeli fire on the nearby UN positions."

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