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Hezbollah has a long history of hiding behind civilians.
They shoot at the Israelis from near a UN outpost, school, private home etc.
When the Israelis shoot back they claim the Israelis are targetting civilians.
I would be surprised if they were not using ambulances.
It is disgusting but most people don’t care. They will just condemn the Israelis.
[quote]vroom wrote:
Real or fake?
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For one, the video is from 2004:
“Caught on tape by Reuters, UN Ambulance transports terrorists away from an attack in Israel. Dated May 11, 2004”
Second, this OLD video is being used to justify Israel’s latest attacks on Red Cross ambulances:
Ambulance drivers tell tales of horror
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2006/07/25/ambulance_drivers_tell_tales_of_horror/?page=full
Medics, injured civilians under attack - Red Cross trucks in south Lebanon targeted by pilots
Red Cross workers angry at violation of humanitarian law
“One of the rockets hit right in the middle of the big red cross that was painted on top of the ambulance. This is a clear violation of humanitarian law, of international law,” he said.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Hezbollah has a long history of hiding behind civilians.
They shoot at the Israelis from near a UN outpost, school, private home etc.
When the Israelis shoot back they claim the Israelis are targetting civilians.
I would be surprised if they were not using ambulances.
It is disgusting but most people don’t care. They will just condemn the Israelis.
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I can only imagine how disgusted you must feel knowing Israel has a “long history of hiding behind civilians” as well…
Israeli high court bans military use of Palestinians as human shields
October 7, 2005
The Guardian
The Israeli high court yesterday ruled that the army’s long-standing practice of using Palestinian civilians as human shields in combat is illegal under international law. It said the military’s claim to have amended the procedure to allow civilians to “volunteer” to work with the army was still unacceptable because it was unlikely anyone would freely do so.
“You cannot exploit the civilian population for the army’s military needs, and you cannot force them to collaborate,” said the Israeli chief justice, Aharon Barak. “Based on this principle, we rule it illegal to use civilians as human shields.”
The case was brought more than three years ago by human rights organisations that said the army routinely forced Palestinian civilians into dangerous situations as a means to protect soldiers. Some of the most common methods were to force Palestinians into buildings to see if they were booby-trapped, or to enter the hideouts of wanted men and tell them to surrender. Soldiers also forced civilians to stand in front of them when on patrol.
At least one human shield was killed, and others have been wounded. Nidal Daraghmeh, a 19-year-old Palestinian student, was shot dead after troops forced him to knock on the door of a wanted Hamas fugitive and shooting broke out.
Seven Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups told the court the use of civilians in any capacity in military operations breached the Geneva conventions.
Sarit Michaeli of B’Tselem, one of the groups, said the ruling would lead to an explicit order to the military high command, forbidding the use of civilians in operations: “A lot of this has to do with the way things get handed down from the high command to the soldiers in the field. In a combat situation there is a more liberal interpretation of the rules. This is why international law forbids the use of civilians at all.”
Yesterday’s ruling came after a temporary injunction preventing the use of human shields was issued in 2002. The army then said it would no longer use human shields, but it continued to ask civilians to “volunteer” as go-betweens on missions to hunt wanted Palestinians.
But Judge Barak said this still breached the Geneva conventions’ bar on an occupying army using civilians in military operations. He also questioned whether anyone really volunteered for such operations. “Ninety-nine out of 100 times, it’s not free will. I am concerned that when an army unit comes at night, no one will refuse to collaborate, out of fear,” he said.
Among the affidavits submitted to the court was one by a soldier, Gideon Etzion, who said that when his unit was ordered to use Palestinian civilians it was not mentioned that they must not be put at risk. He said officers laughed at the rule that civilians must volunteer. “What civilian would refuse a ‘request’ at 3am by a group of soldiers aiming their weapons at him?” Mr Etzion wrote.
The ruling had a mixed reception from Israeli politicians. Zahava Galon, an MP for the leftwing Meretz party, said: “The high court has ruled that an army in a democratic state cannot act like terror gangs.” But Effie Eitam, an MP for the National Religious party, said the court had bound the hands of the army.
How they’ve been deployed
The Israeli army used Palestinian civilians as human shields in a variety of combat situations:
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Forcing them to enter the homes of wanted men to tell them to surrender, or ordering them to enter suspected booby-trapped buildings
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Placing civilians between troops and hostile crowds to discourage stone-throwing or shooting
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Troops standing behind a Palestinian and then firing over the civilian’s shoulder during combat
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Palestinian families locked into a room after the army commandeered their homes as military posts, to discourage militants from attacking
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Civilians ordered to pick up suspected bombs on roads
Amnesty: Israel and the Occupied Territories
Covering events from January - December 2004
Killings and attacks by the Israeli army
The Israeli army killed around 700 Palestinians, including some 150 children, in the Occupied
Territories, most of them unlawfully. Many were killed in deliberate as well as reckless shooting, shelling and bombardment of densely populated residential areas or as a result of excessive use of force. Some 120 Palestinians were killed in extrajudicial executions, including more than 30 bystanders, of whom four were children. Others were killed in armed clashes with Israeli soldiers. Thousands of others were injured.
Four Palestinian schoolgirls were shot dead by the Israeli army in their classrooms or walking to school in the Gaza Strip in September and October. Raghda Adnan al-Assar and Ghadeer Jaber Mukhaymar, aged 10 and nine, were shot dead by Israeli soldiers while sitting at their desks in UN schools in Khan Yunis refugee camp. Eight-year-old Rania Iyad Aram was shot dead by Israeli soldiers as she was walking to school.
On 5 October Israeli soldiers shot dead 13-year-old Iman al-Hams near her school in Rafah. According to an army communication recording of the incident and testimonies of soldiers, a commander repeatedly shot the child at close range even though soldiers had identified her as “a little girl… scared to death”. The commander was charged with illegal use of his weapon, obstructing justice, improper use of authority and unbecoming conduct. He was not charged with murder or manslaughter…
‘Human shields’
Israeli soldiers continued to use Palestinians as “human shields” during military operations, forcing them to carry out tasks that endangered their lives, despite an injunction by the Israeli High Court banning the practice. A petition against the use of “human shields” submitted by Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations to the Supreme Court in May 2002 was still pending at the end of 2004.
In April, Israeli soldiers used 13-year-old Muhammed Badwan as a “human shield” during a demonstration in the West Bank village of Biddu. The soldiers placed the boy on the hood of their jeep and tied him to the front windscreen to discourage Palestinian demonstrators from throwing stones in their direction.
http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/isr-summary-eng
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[quote]JustTheFacts wrote:
vroom wrote:
Real or fake?
For one, the video is from 2004:
“Caught on tape by Reuters, UN Ambulance transports terrorists away from an attack in Israel. Dated May 11, 2004”
Second, this OLD video is being used to justify Israel’s latest attacks on Red Cross ambulances:
Ambulance drivers tell tales of horror
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2006/07/25/ambulance_drivers_tell_tales_of_horror/?page=full
Medics, injured civilians under attack - Red Cross trucks in south Lebanon targeted by pilots
Red Cross workers angry at violation of humanitarian law
“One of the rockets hit right in the middle of the big red cross that was painted on top of the ambulance. This is a clear violation of humanitarian law, of international law,” he said.
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Must have used one of those non-flammable safety missles that don’t explode. Those Jews are so sneaky.
If a Hellfire hit a sheet metal ambulance you wouldn’t be looking at this picture. It’s a silly picture.
[quote]hedo wrote:
JustTheFacts wrote:
vroom wrote:
Real or fake?
For one, the video is from 2004:
“Caught on tape by Reuters, UN Ambulance transports terrorists away from an attack in Israel. Dated May 11, 2004”
Second, this OLD video is being used to justify Israel’s latest attacks on Red Cross ambulances:
Ambulance drivers tell tales of horror
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2006/07/25/ambulance_drivers_tell_tales_of_horror/?page=full
Medics, injured civilians under attack - Red Cross trucks in south Lebanon targeted by pilots
Red Cross workers angry at violation of humanitarian law
“One of the rockets hit right in the middle of the big red cross that was painted on top of the ambulance. This is a clear violation of humanitarian law, of international law,” he said.
Must have used one of those non-flammable safety missles that don’t explode. Those Jews are so sneaky.
If a Hellfire hit a sheet metal ambulance you wouldn’t be looking at this picture. It’s a silly picture.
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Shhhhh.
knock it off with all the facts and reasoning and just let JTF ramble on. I love all of his super duper jew conspiracy theories.