Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Hamas Exploitation of Civilians as Human Shields

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e028.htm
1. This study examines how Hamas and the other terrorist organizations
in the Gaza Strip make extensive use of Palestinian civilians as human
shields. It shows how the terrorist organizations constructed a vast
military infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, including a large arsenal
of rocket and mortar shells used to target the southern Israeli
population (in 2001-2008 more than 8,000 rockets and mortar shell were
fired into populated Israeli areas). The terrorists' military
infrastructure was hidden in and around civilian homes and dispersed
to locations scattered around the Gaza Strip, home to an estimated
more than 1.4 million people, one of the most densely populated areas
on earth.
2. The calculated, cynical use of the civilian population as human
shields is intended to decrease the vulnerability of Hamas and the
other Palestinian terrorist organizations by affording them a kind of
immunity from the IDF's counterterrorism activities, since they are
aware that Israel avoids harming the civilian population insofar as is
possible. It is also intended to make it possible for Hamas and the
other terrorist organizations to make political-propaganda gains in
the battle for hearts and minds by representing Israel as operating
against innocent civilians. The terrorist organizations' doctrine of
using human shields was inspired by Hezbollah's tactics in Lebanon and
by the lessons they learned from the terrorist campaign they have been
waging against Israel since 2000.
3. Today Hamas and the other terrorist organizations have
approximately 20,000 arms-bearing operatives in the Gaza Strip with
varying degrees of skills. They have light arms, anti-tank weapons,
powerful explosive devices, and rockets and mortar shells. Their
military infrastructure is situated in urban population locations
(with Gaza City serving as the nerve center) and eight densely
populated refugee camps throughout the Gaza Strip .
4. Hamas and the other terrorist organizations copied and developed
Hezbollah's warfare doctrine, which is based on exploiting the
civilian population as human shields. They adapted it to the unique
conditions of the Gazan arena, which are topographically easier than
those in south Lebanon . Using civilians as human shields is a war
crime, a grave breach of the laws of armed conflict and a crime
against humanity. Rockets and mortar shells are routinely fired from
built up, densely populated areas and near structures and facilities
(including educational institutions and mosques) provided special
protection by the Geneva Conventions. In the scenario of an IDF
incursion into the Gaza Strip, the terrorist organizations will use
those urban and refugee camp settings as the focal points from which
they fight.
5. This study (completed during the first week of Operation Cast Lead)
provides many examples of how Gazan civilians are used as human
shields during terrorist attacks against Israel and combat against the
IDF. The examples are based on Israel 's accumulated experience in its
combating terrorism from the Gaza Strip, including the first week of
the Operation. The main findings are the following:
    i) Military and security personnel, facilities and installations
are situated within dense population concentrations (including
residential dwellings and public institutions, such as schools,
mosques and hospitals) : The military infrastructure attacked
massively attacked by the IDF during Operation Cast Lead, includes
terrorist operatives, weapons, and the facilities and installations
themselves: headquarters, bases, offices, arsenals, tunnel and
underground networks, lathes, workshops and bunkers. Constructing a
vast security-military infrastructure within the civilian population
exposes it to frequent “work accidents” and puts it on the front line
in the fighting when the Israeli security forces carry out
counterterrorism activities or when there are violent internal
Palestinian conflicts.
    ii) Rockets and mortar shells are fired at Israeli population
centers from inside or close to private Palestinian residences and
sometimes from educational institutions or mosques. The rocket
launching squads deliberately situate their launchers near houses to
camouflage themselves and to protect themselves from the IDF. The
attacks carried out by the terrorists often disrupt the daily lives of
the Palestinian population and endanger them. Sometimes rockets
explode as they are being prepared for firing, and in some instances
homemade Qassam rockets (whose technical quality is low) fall in the
Gaza Strip instead of Israel and kill and wound local civilians.
    iii) The terrorists fight against the IDF from within residences
and public institutions, and use ambulances to evacuate terrorist
operatives from the battlefield : In Operation Cast Lead, terrorist
operatives found refuge in facilities such as hospitals, educational
institutions and mosques. In IDF operations carried out in recent
years, including Operation Hot Winter in March 2008 and Operation
Autumn Clouds in October 2006, the IDF often faced terrorist
operatives fighting from within private residences and receiving
support from civilians, including women and children, who patrolled
and carried out intelligence missions. In some instances the terrorist
operatives wore civilian clothing, making it difficult to distinguish
between them and genuine civilians. During Operation Hot Winter the
IDF found weapons hidden in a mosque in the Jabaliya refugee camp.
During battles in the Al-Zeitun neighborhood in 2004, the terrorists
used UNRWA ambulances to evacuate a wounded Palestinian and terrorist
operatives. All are grave breaches of the laws of war and an
exploitation of the special protection afforded to places of worship
and medical installations and vehicles.
    iv) Civilians, including women and children, are deliberately used
as human shields to protect terrorist operatives whose houses the
organizations fear may be attacked by the IDF : During Operation Cast
Lead and in many instances in the past, the terrorist organizations
have exploited IDF warnings to civilians to evacuate their residences
before attacks to send children and adolescents to the relevant
locations, knowing the IDF will not deliberately attack civilians.
Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya and many other Hamas leaders (such
as Nizar Rayyan, killed in Operation Cast Lead) have openly boasted
about their use of their human shield tactics.
    v) The terrorists hold military training, exercises and shows of
fighting , important for improving their fighting skills and raising
morale, in the midst of population concentrations (where the
terrorists feel more secure than in exposed settings). They endanger
the civilians' lives, disrupt their daily routines, expose them to
various types of work accidents (random gunfire, explosions) as well
as to IDF counterterrorism activities. The Gazans have often appealed
to the terrorist organizations to stop such activities, but without
success. Exercises and shows of fighting increased during the six
month lull arrangement prior to Operation Cast Lead.
    vi) Women and children are used as human shields : The terrorist
organizations sent 200 women to rescue dozens of operatives from the
Nasser mosque in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip during an IDF
action in November 2006. The terrorists mingled with the women,
exploiting the fact that the IDF would not fire indiscriminately at a
large group of women, and escaped from the combat area. Moreover,
during IDF combat in the Gaza Strip in the past, the IDF often found
terrorist operatives shooting at them while surrounded by children and
adolescents , sometimes on their own initiative and sometimes prompted
by the terrorists (incidents well documented and presented below).
Women and children are also used in logistic operations and to carry
out terrorist attacks (collecting intelligence, smuggling weapons,
suicide bombing attacks). Such tactics may be repeated during
Operation Cast Lead.
6. The civilian Gazan population pays a high price both with regard to
personal injury and death (this study documents heavy civilian
casualties caused by terrorist activity) and the severe disruption of
their daily routines . Beyond the issue of using civilians as human
shields, the entire Gazan population pays a heavy price for Hamas's
policy, because when Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in June 2007, it
turned its more than 1.4 million Gazans into hostages of its radical
Islamic ideology and attendant strategy. Hamas forced them into a
situation of unending combat with Israel , a harsh confrontation with
the Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority, the deterioration of
relations with Egypt and other Arab states, and isolation from the
international community.
7. The fundamental contradiction between the needs of the civilian
population and Hamas's policies is clearly manifested by the
continuing attacks made by Hamas and the other terrorist organizations
on the crossings between Israel and the Gaza Strip, the lifelines for
the Gazans, and by the difficulties imposed by Hamas on their
operation. Although for years Hamas has tried to falsely represent the
situation in the Gaza Strip as a humanitarian crisis and even a
“holocaust,” in effect it prefers carrying out terrorist attacks
against Israel to caring for the basic interests of the Gazans. For
the past few years the Kerem Shalom, Sufa, Karni, Nahal Oz and Erez
crossings, through which fuel and other vital supplies are delivered
to the Gaza Strip, have been repeatedly attacked with rocket and
mortar shell fire as well as attempted mass-casualty and suicide
bombing attacks. The rocket and mortar shell fire at the crossings
continued during the six months the lull arrangement was in force. In
addition, the terrorist organizations have publicly targeted the
Ashqelon power plant, which provides the Gaza Strip with 65% of its
electricity.
8. In the past, Hamas's use of civilians as human shields and its
cynical and malicious disregard for their basic interests have led to
harsh criticism from the residents of the Gaza Strip (even though
Hamas makes an effort to minimize it in the media it controls), as
well as the Palestinian Authority and Egypt . Hamas has ignored the
internal and external criticism, refuses to change its policies and
frequently exploits the shortages, poverty and suffering in the Gaza
Strip as fodder for media campaigns attacking Israel , Egypt and the
Palestinian Authority.
9. During Operation Cast Lead , which began on December 27, 2008 , the
IDF has carried out precise attacks on the military infrastructure
established in the midst of the civilian population. The Israeli air
strikes from the air and sea against Hamas (and other terrorist
organization) targets situated in civilian locations are acceptable
according to international law. They have been carried out because of
the State of Israel's need to afford security to its civilians and to
ensure their welfare and basic right to life and safety in accordance
with the principles of armed combat. For eight years Israeli citizens
have been exposed to continual rocket and mortar shell fire, as well
as other forms of terrorism, all originating with Hamas and the other
terrorist organizations which control the Gaza Strip and operate from
it .
10. Hamas and the other terrorist organizations, for their part, carry
out war crimes and crimes against humanity, both by the deliberate,
indiscriminate firing of massive rocket barrages at civilian targets
to sow terror, death and destruction, and by using the civilian
population of the Gaza Strip as human shields. All of the above
violate the basic principle of the distinction between combatants and
non-combatants, which is one of the cornerstones of the laws of armed
warfare. It is up to the international community to deal with the
terrorist organizations and the countries which sponsor and support
them (especially Iran and Syria ) with all the political and legal
means they have at their disposal.
11. The composition of this study began in the middle of 2008 and was
completed at the end of the first week of Operation Cast Lead, with
the beginning of the IDF land incursion into the Gaza Strip. The
analysis of the use of civilians as humans shields and the many
examples presented here are based on Israel's experience in fighting
against Hamas and other terrorist organizations controlling and
operating in the Gaza Strip. It includes examples from the first week
of Operation Cast Lead, but without a doubt it will have to be updated
when the operation in the Gaza Strip ends.
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"i palestinesi stanno ben peggio"  (Luca Logi / rodewalder / Golda
Meir, febbraio 2008)
http://raionim.blogspot.com/2009/01/certo-che-i-qassam-sono-pericolosi_05.html

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nello studio si parla anche dell'uso di soldati israeliani come scudi
umani?
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3651434,00.html

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