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And yet nobody has ever shown pictures or evidence that they do that. We hear about it constantly, but not one photo to back it up in a world of pocket cameras.
Hamas are a fucking blight, but I'm tired of the same god damned excuses for Israel's bad behavior. Fuck the IDF. Fuck Hamas. Fuck the whole lot assholes who put innocents in danger.
Civilians, Israeli or Palestinian, should not be pawns. The one immutable fact is, only one side here has any real power.
Exactly. And yet we have these pieces of evidence and we ignore them.
Aljazeera documentary
Palestinian Children 'Routinely Tortured & Used As Human Shields By Israeli Forces', Says UN
Video from B'Tselem
More from B'Tselem who had to do so much just to have this human shield business against Palestinians banned in Israel
And finally this classic from which the iconic photo comes from
Photo:
EDIT: I see the downvotes, from all my heart I say, "fuck you". These are all examples of times when Israel used Palestinians as human shields and the world ignores it.
"Woops! Another journalist died. We didn't see the blue helmets. We're colorblind lol!"
Giant long post propping up a terrorist organization. Fuck yourself.