Every time that Israel wages war against a neighbour, and causes high civilian casualties, it makes this argument. Israel made this argument during its Operation Cast Lead in 2008/9, yet when human rights groups (e.g. Amnesty International, the UN Goldstone Report, etc.) researched the allegation after the conflict had ended, they found no evidence of the use of “human shields.” Similarly, in the aftermath of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 2006, human rights organizations found there was no evidence that Hezbollah had used human shields.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:25:54 +0000