Hamas using children as human shields

In order to avoid civilian casualties, Israel sends warning messages before attacking terrorist targets advising civilians to leave. Israel prefers to attack empty buildings used to manufacture rockets, even taking into consideration that the terrorists too will be warned and their lives spared.
Hamas, on the other hand, calls on civilians to come and to protect with their bodies the precise locations they expect Israel to attack. Since they know that Israel will usually strike from the air, they send the children to the roofs to prevent the air force from targeting that building.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who is in Israel seeking a cease fire, asked for a "full explanation" and said the Israel defense minister told him there had been a "grave mistake."
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the military fired artillery shells at the U.N. compound after Hamas terrorists opened fire from the location. Three people were wounded.
The IDF also fired into a building housing The Associated Press offices, entering a room where two staffers were working but wounding no one.
Though the IDF had obtained the locations of media organizations in Gaza at the beginning of fighting to avoid such attacks, in the heat of a war, mistakes are made. And it is the strategy of Hamas to invite these mistakes.
To enlighten those who may have harbored any doubts, Fathi Ahmad Hammad, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, said it with pride: Palestinians deliberately use women and children as human shields.
"The enemies of Allah do not know that the Palestinian people has developed its methods of death and death-seeking. For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land. The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine. It is as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: "We desire death like you desire life."
Hammad is a leader of the Izzedeen al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, and in 2006 was elected to the Palestinian Parliament as a Hamas representative. He is also director of Al-Aqsa TV, which aired his comments on February 29.
Hammad disclosed Hamas strategy, which some have suspected but few have actually believed: use people, especially women and children, UN facilities and the press as human shields.
This strategy has been immensely successful. Fire at Israel cities from school yards, and make Israel choose between allowing its own children to be targets or risking harm to others. Now we know beyond a doubt that Hamas knows what it is doing, and is doing it intentionally.

But people still will not believe. The prevailing attitude is typified in the words of Javier Solana, head of foreign policy for the European Union:

"I cannot imagine that the religious imperative, the real religious imperative, can make anybody destroy another country. Therefore that is an abuse of religion. I don't think the essence of Hamas is the destruction of Israel. The essence of Hamas is the liberation of the Palestinians, the liberation of their people, not the destruction of Israel."

This is the mistake Westerners, profoundly ignorant of history, make over and over again: to assume that all cultures everywhere hold the same values they do. This is a dangerous form of ethnocentrism.

Perhaps if Solana had been listening, he would have heard how Hamas repeatedly proclaims its intention to destroy Israel. He might have seen the following on the Hamas web site: "Israel will rise and will remain erect until Islam eliminates it. Our struggle against the Jews is extremely wide-ranging and grave. The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him! Israel, by virtue of its being Jewish and of having a Jewish population, defies Islam and the Muslims."

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[chrissyhalfs]

lies

[sauerkraut28]

@chrissyhalfs lies? this is all you have to say?? ohhhh thats right you don't need facts'you have seen it all on tv,right? you sit in your little peaceful house in england and think you have it all figured out...

when ther will be exploding schoolbusses in england like here in israel than you will remember me dude

next time try to comment something more intelligent pls

have a great day

[Gideon6640man]

@UrMumIsSoBadAss90 Um no there was NEVER a country called "Palestine" and there has ALWAYS been a Jewish presence in the land. Jews were buying up land from the Turks at inflated prices.If you want to blame the Palestinian suffering balme your fellow arabs due ,they are a the ones to tell the "Palestinians" to leave Israel so they can drive the Jews nnto the sea and then can go back...why wont fellow muslims take them in? King Jordan has killed more "Palestinians" that Israel has. Your an idiot.

[cowson2006]

@dymproductions perfectly good 'excuse'? There shouldn't be an excuse, there should be a solution to this ridiculous vicious circle. Israel are just as bad as them if not worse considering how much more damage and civilian deaths they have caused. I thought they were an intelligent country but I guess I was wron, they are not better than the Hamas

[dymproductions]

@cowson2006 The problem isn't about where to hide them but the fact that Hamas puts weapons in civilians areas in order to 'protect' it.

And anyway, since 2000 6000 rockets have been launched. Israel withdraw 100% from Gaza in 2005 for peace and got more rockets.

Last year on average 600 rockets fell which is 2 a day. In January this year over 30 rockets...

Look at the Israeli side as well of the story. Israel has a perfectly reasonable excuse to attack.

[cowson2006]

Where the fuck else are they supposed to place the weapons?? In the fucking ocean? The whole area of the Gaza Strip is civilian. It's plain and simple. The israel military should never have attacked

[wahlols]

lol israel defense force is the ones using palestinian people as sheilds not Hamas, ive seen the pictures This video is all nothong but LIES!!!

[ParamoreWorshipper]

@HelenBransgrove21

Under what circumstances could "Palestine" be free. Hamas, who were democratically elected, throw political opponents from rooftops, stone women to death in the street and publicly hang homosexuals. They use children as human shields when they attacks civilians.

Hamas opposes freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom of press and many other basic freedoms.

So how could "Palestine" be freed?

[HamasElite]

@lizziedavidson1987 Hamas is not your enemy, your zionist government is your enemy. And as long as they stay in occupied territory hamas and hezbollah will keep pounding you. Eventually your state will not survive, all the signs for this are becoming clear now. Its only a matter of time. Israel will be no more than an annoying memory...

[TheApocalyps4]

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[jigglyfidda125]

Long live Israel!!

Palestinians an fuck off to Jordan or Gaza. How many more countries do they need? They already have two countries. Arabs are habitually greedy

[sarge6925]

lies

[yonimex123]

@cailinagaillimhe lies all lies so the giy in the hamas video on an el gasirra video is a lie .............ahahaah damm nice lies you sell let me know when the shroom is loosing effect..........