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Use of human shields by terrorists (view source)
Revision as of 13:52, September 23, 2021
, 13:52, September 23, 2021→Anti-Israel forces
The reporter requested that his name not be used.</blockquote></ref> and has even threatened journalists reporting about it.<ref name=jpost-journalistfear>[https://www.jpost.com/operation-protective-edge/journalists-threatened-by-hamas-for-reporting-use-of-human-shields-369619 Journalists threatened by Hamas for reporting use of human shields], Lahav Harkov, JPost, Jul 31, 2014.
The reporter requested that his name not be used.</blockquote></ref> and has even threatened journalists reporting about it.<ref name=jpost-journalistfear>[https://www.jpost.com/operation-protective-edge/journalists-threatened-by-hamas-for-reporting-use-of-human-shields-369619 Journalists threatened by Hamas for reporting use of human shields], Lahav Harkov, JPost, Jul 31, 2014.
''Foreign correspondents asked to leave enclave for social media posts on Hamas' utilization of civilian sites to attack Israel.''</ref><ref name=tabmag-2014/>
''Foreign correspondents asked to leave enclave for social media posts on Hamas' utilization of civilian sites to attack Israel.''</ref><ref name=tabmag-2014/>
Already in 2009, the fear factor was raised which prevents Arab Palestinians in testifying about it,<ref>The Simon Wiesenthal Center, "[https://www.aish.com/jw/me/92746669.html 2010 Top Ten Anti-Israel Lies]." Aish, May 8, 2010. <br>
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... The Goldstone Report on Israel’s defensive war against Hamas-controlled Gaza, from which 8,000 rockets were fired after Israel’s unilateral withdrawal in 2005, is a biased product of the UN’s misnamed Human Rights Council. The UNHRC is obsessed with false anti-Israel resolutions. It refuses to address grievous human rights abuses in Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and beyond.
Faced with similar attacks, every UN member-state including the U.S. and Canada would surely have acted more aggressively than the IDF did in Gaza.
Yet, Richard Goldstone, a South African Jewish jurist, signed a document prepared by investigators whose main qualification was rabid anti-Israel bias. He accepted every anonymous libel against the IDF. But he insisted that hearings in Gaza be televised, guaranteeing that fearful Palestinians would never testify about Hamas’ use of civilians as human shields and their hiding of weapons in mosques and hospitals.
</blockquote></ref> before Richard Goldstone saw the facts and had revised his report, admitting he was wrong, and stated that Hamas in fact has been using human shields and the IDF's killing was unintentional.<ref>Marc Tracy, "[https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/goldstone-retracts-israeli-war-crimes-claim Goldstone Retracts Israeli War Crimes Claim]", Tablet Magazine, April 4, 2011.
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Author of eponymous report asserts Israel did not target civilians.
As Goldstone aptly explains it, the Report essentially saw dead civilians and, without any further evidence, assumed intentionality, when in fact, the IDF’s track record of attempting to minimize civilian casualties, combined with Hamas’s track record of using civilians as human shields to either deter retaliation or provoke outcry when retaliation kills civilians, should have moved the mission to find unintentionality; in this case, according to Goldstone himself, subsequent evidence proved them right and him wrong.</blockquote></ref>
Already in 2008, Hamas openly bragged about the use of women and children as shields.<ref>[https://www.memri.org/tv/hamas-mp-fathi-hammad-we-used-women-and-children-human-shields Hamas MP Fathi Hammad: We Used Women and Children as Human Shields]
Already in 2008, Hamas openly bragged about the use of women and children as shields.<ref>[https://www.memri.org/tv/hamas-mp-fathi-hammad-we-used-women-and-children-human-shields Hamas MP Fathi Hammad: We Used Women and Children as Human Shields]