Original sentence: Hezbollah often stored weapons in or near civilian homes and fighters placed rocket launchers within populated areas or near U.However, these volunteers quickly abandoned their mission when they realized they might actually be put in harm's way.The Israeli Defense Forces and an Australian journalist, Chris Link, have documented and photographed incidents where they claim Hezbollah and Hamas used civilians as human shields to prevent the IDF from firing at gunmen and rocket launchers.Watch found many cases in which Hezbollah deliberately used civilians as shields to protect them from retaliatory IDF attack.observers, which are serious violations of the laws of war because they violate the dutyto take all feasible precautions to avoid civilian casualties
Edited sentence: During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict the Israeli Defense Forces and an Australian journalist, Chris Link, documented and photographed incidents where they claim Hezbollah used civilians as human shields to prevent the IDF from firing at gunmen and rocket launchers.Hamas were accused of a similar practice by a source speaking to FrontPageMag.Hezbollah occasionally did store stored weapons in or near civilian homes and fighters placed rocket launchers within populated areas or near U.This disputes the UN account which said there was "no Hezbollah activity within three miles of the U.Watch found no cases in which Hezbollah deliberately used civilians as shields to protect them from retaliatory IDF attack.observers, which are serious violations of the laws of war because they violate the duty to take all feasible precautions to avoid civilian casualties