Use of "Human shields" as a Violation of International Law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

See the attached article on the use of Human Shields as a violation of International Law-- Human shield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In spite of this, Palestinians have begun to use a human shield strategy actively in Gaza. It is a win-win strategy for the Palestinians. The world community does not hold them responsible for violations of international law -- whether it entails aiming rockets purposely at population centers Like Sderot in southern Israel in order to maximize civilian casualties, or surrounding mosques or homes of civilian-killing terrorists with Palestinian civilian human shields (see, for example, "Human Shields in Gaza" in today's NY Times and AP). Human life (including that of their own wives and children) means little to Palestinian Islamists. If Israel kills the human shileds to get at its targetted prey, Israel is politically attacked by the world community. this week the UN passes a lopsided resolution attacking Israel's seemingly accidental killing of some civilians in Gaza (no one at the UN has even sought to prove otherwise), while the same UN resolution makes no noise about the reason for Israeli operations in Gaza -- the constant barrage of missiles from Gaza at Israeli population centers, which resulted in the death of a 56 year old Israeli civilian this week.

Same old, same old....