Designating safe areas in Gaza allows the Israeli army to carry out war crimes more efficiently and then to deny them.
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This would be detrimental not only to United Nations agencies, but also to the global human rights regime.
The human shield accusation has become an increasingly common defence when states act immorally.
Desperately trying to justify the killing of unarmed protesters, Israel once again uses its ‘human shields’ mantra.
Why is the US Congress sanctioning Hezbollah over “human shields” now?
What is Israeli settler trauma and will a new law legalising illegal settlements “cure” it?
How the international coalition is framing civilians in Iraq as ISIL’s human shields.
Revelations about Israel’s infiltration of NGOs in the 1970s shocked many, but human rights ‘spies’ are still out there.
State-sanctioned ethnic cleansing and human rights violations are what enabled the Jewish settlers to occupy lands.
By claiming that the other side is using human shields, the attacker provides itself with a pre-emptive legal defence.
