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Use of human shields by terrorists (view source)
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Dubbed the 'dead baby strategy.'<ref>[https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2010/01/10/gil-stein-hamas-dead-baby-strategy-reprehensible/ Gil Stein: Hamas ”dead baby strategy” reprehensible], Gil Stein, Santa Cruz Sentinel, published: January 10, 2010, updated: September 11, 2018 <blockquote>
Dubbed the 'dead baby strategy.'<ref>[https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2010/01/10/gil-stein-hamas-dead-baby-strategy-reprehensible/ Gil Stein: Hamas ”dead baby strategy” reprehensible], Gil Stein, Santa Cruz Sentinel, published: January 10, 2010, updated: September 11, 2018 <blockquote>
We also saw video from the other side. We saw the destruction in Gaza and we also saw how the Hamas weapon of choice was the human shield. In Israeli cities efforts were made to protect civilians. Israel also made efforts to minimize civilian casualties on the other side by dropping over a million leaflets warning people to vacate areas where Hamas activity was taking place. In Gaza it was the opposite.</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/why-do-the-media-keep-encouraging-hamas-violence-557766 Why do the media keep encouraging Hamas violence?] A. Dershowitz, JPost, May 17, 2018.
We also saw video from the other side. We saw the destruction in Gaza and we also saw how the Hamas weapon of choice was the human shield. In Israeli cities efforts were made to protect civilians. Israel also made efforts to minimize civilian casualties on the other side by dropping over a million leaflets warning people to vacate areas where Hamas activity was taking place. In Gaza it was the opposite.</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://www.jpost.com/opinion/why-do-the-media-keep-encouraging-hamas-violence-557766 Why do the media keep encouraging Hamas violence?] A. Dershowitz, JPost, May 17, 2018.
''Calling this the “dead baby strategy” may seem cruel, because it is cruel. But don’t blame the messenger for accurately describing this tactic.''</ref><ref>[https://honestreporting.ca/canadian-media-fall-for-palestinian-dead-baby-strategy/ Canadian Media Fall for Palestinian Dead Baby Strategy], Mike Fegelman, HR, May 9, 2019.<br>
''Calling this the “dead baby strategy” may seem cruel, because it is cruel. But don’t blame the messenger for accurately describing this tactic.''</ref><ref>[https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-dead-baby-strategy/ The dead-baby strategy]
Jonathan S Tobin, JNS, May 18, 2018<blockquote>
The exploitation of the death of a Palestinian infant shows the depths to which anti-Israel propaganda has sunk and how effective such immoral arguments can be...
But what good are facts if all you’re really after is more propaganda war against Israel? If someone like British shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry (the person who will be Britain’s leading diplomat if a Labour Party that is tainted by anti-Semitism wins the next election in that country) could claim that Israeli snipers were shooting Palestinian children in the back while they ran for their lives, then clearly anything is possible...
Palestinians brought their children to the border as if they were going to a family picnic. As we saw during previous armed conflicts with Israel, Palestinian factions routinely use humans as shield. The presence of civilians protects their fighters, as well as provides a bonus in the form of bad press for Israel if non-combatants are harmed.
While some Jews are ashamed that Israelis are prepared to use lethal force to defend their country, Hamas leaders feel no shame about putting Palestinian children in harm’s way. In their eyes, the goal of destroying the Jewish state is so important that no action is too depraved if it undermines Israel.
Hamas is correct about the effectiveness of these tactics, which are nothing less than acts of human sacrifice. In the face of such calamity, it’s hard for some seemingly fair-minded observers like the Times’ David Brooks to think clearly about Gaza. The situation is so egregious that they assume that no matter what Hamas does, they’ve come to believe it’s somehow Israel’s responsibility prevent the Palestinians from purposing the deaths of these kids. Rather than analyze the conflict dispassionately, he and others simply damn both sides as extremists...</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/6127 The dead baby strategy: defend terror, not democracy], Tuvia Brodie, INN, Aug 11, 2014.
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... we see how a terror organization uses a ‘dead baby’ strategy. It uses children as human shields. It seeks more, not less, civilian deaths. It does that to enrage the world against Israel.
It’s a strategy that’s perfectly aligned with how a terror organization thinks. The Daily Telegraph, however, doesn’t understand the difference between a democracy and a terror organization. It doesn’t look at how Hamas deliberately positions civilians, especially women and children, to be killed by attacking Israelis. It doesn’t ask why Hamas won’t let civilians leave targets after Israel notifies those civilians to evacuate because a strike is coming at them. It cares only about one thing: Palestinian children have been killed by Israel-the-democracy...
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[http://www.jij.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/JIJ-Fact-Sheet-1-Hamas-EN-A4-ver-12.pdf Why HAMAS is Bad for Palestinians], Jerusalem Institute of Justice,
May, 2017.
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1. Societal Abuse
Hamas has forcefully taken over Gaza, and has summarily executed 500+ political opponents by throwing them from
skyscraper rooftops.
Hamas carries out arbitrary arrests, torture and executions, by accusing and convicting suspected anti-Hamas
Palestinians as "collaborators." During July/August 2014 Hamas performed at least 55 executions of civilians.
Hamas has arbitrarily arrested and/or detained at least 2,970 people since seizing control of Gaza. 200+ cases of torture by Hamas have been documented since 2011.
2. Child Abuse
Hamas perpetuates a culture of militarization in which younger children are revered as holier martyrs. Hamas runs summer camps for children as young as 6 years old, which include activities like crawling under barbed wire fences with assault rifles and viewing simulated kidnappings of Israeli soldiers.
160 child laborers allegedly died during
Hamas’ construction of cross-border tunnels between Gaza and Israel.
Hamas spokesman: "Human rights education dangerously contravenes Palestinian and Islamic culture" and "brainwashes Palestinian children."
3. Corruption
Hamas raises billions of dollars, pockets most of it, and with what's left, builds tens of millions of dollars' worth of tunnels under homes, schools and hospitals. It diverted an estimated $30-90 million’s worth of building materials from construction projects to build three dozen tunnels into Israel to use for terrorist acts.
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, with personal net worth of $2.6 billion, calls the shots of the military engagement in Gaza while living comfortably at a 5-star hotel in Qatar.
4. Human Rights Abuses
Hamas morality police punish women ..
Women in Gaza are unable to initiate divorce.
Only males may press incest charges. Rapists can be set free if they agree to marry their victims. Homosexuality is entirely outlawed by Hamas, with a punishment of up to ten years in jail.
5. Disregard for Life
Hamas camouflages its combatants in civilian clothes, turning all Gazans into potential IDF targets.
Hamas glorifies martyrdom as a high calling, intentionally drawing Palestinian civilians into danger by firing rockets at Israel from civilian population centers. Hamas has been known to physically prevent civilians from evacuating targeted buildings.
Hamas implements a "<b>dead-baby strategy</b>" by strategically trying to have as many as possible Palestinian babies killed, in order to use the photos to raise finances and political collateral.
Hamas declared that all Israelis – including civilian men, women and children – are legitimate targets of missile attacks.
Hamas frequently misfires rockets which land in Gaza, destroying buildings and killing innocent Palestinians.
Hamas booby-traps homes, schools, and hospitals with explosives. "Work accidents" sometimes kill civilians.
Hamas in August 2014 booby-trapped a United Nations clinic in Gaza by hiding 12 barrels containing 80 kg. of explosives each in a wall, and then using a child to lure Israeli soldiers into the building. The explosives detonated and three soldiers died.
HAMAS TERRORIZES the PEOPLE of GAZA.
FREE GAZA END HAMAS' OCCUPATION.</blockquote></ref><ref>[https://honestreporting.ca/canadian-media-fall-for-palestinian-dead-baby-strategy/ Canadian Media Fall for Palestinian Dead Baby Strategy], Mike Fegelman, HR, May 9, 2019.<br>
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Israel’s enemies are adept at exploiting the deaths of Palestinian infants and innocent civilians alike to slander the Jewish state.
Israel’s enemies are adept at exploiting the deaths of Palestinian infants and innocent civilians alike to slander the Jewish state.