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    From hello there@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 21 15:54:34 2025
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    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

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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.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to hello there on Sat Mar 22 03:16:06 2025
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    On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:54:34 +0000 (UTC), hello there wrote:

    Report on Hamas' use of human shields in Gaza

    How come no evidence of such has ever been presented to any
    independent authority? Here’s a report to the UN <https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147976>:

    A. Human Shields and the logic of genocide

    ...

    59. Israel has accused Palestinian armed groups of deliberately
    using civilians as human shields in previous aggressions on Gaza
    (including in 2008-09, 2012, 2014, 2021 and 2022). It also used it
    to justify high civilian casualties and attacks against
    paramedics, journalists and others during the 2018–2019 ‘Great
    March of Return’. UN independent fact-finding missions and
    reputable human rights organizations have consistently challenged
    these allegations, sometimes concluding that evidence of human
    shields had been fabricated. Nevertheless, Israel has used these
    accusations – sometimes then retracted – to justify widespread and
    systematic killing of Palestinian civilians in its ongoing
    assault.

    There are references given to every single one of those claims, so you
    can check them for yourself.

    Does the “report” you cite offer any references?

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