The Dangerous Failure to Hold Hamas Accountable for Using Human Shields
How international institutions’ silence on Hamas hiding behind civilians incentivizes human shields use, and distorts law and accountability.
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Attacks on Iran Intensify Ahead of Trump Deadline To Reopen Strait of Hormuz
Bombs Fall Across Iran: Strikes against Islamic Republic targets intensified on April 7 as President Donald Trump’s 8 p.m. ET deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz...
Flash Briefs
Iran Is Using Its Citizens As Human Shields
Tehran’s regime is sacrificing ordinary Iranians and calling it "defense."
Op-eds
Released Israeli Hostages Reveal Brutal Treatment at Hands of Hamas Captors
New Hostage Accounts Confirm Depravity of Hamas: After Hamas released the remaining 20 living hostages from Gaza on October 13 in exchange for approximately 2,000 Palestinian prisoners...
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Hamas Using Hospital as Cover for Attacks
Israeli forces and Hamas fighters clashed on November 20 near a hospital next to the Gazan city of Jabalia, which has seen fierce fighting in recent days. The Hamas-run Gaza Health...
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Hamas Uses Hospital as Terror Command Center, Israel Says
Hamas is using Gaza’s largest hospital as a terror headquarters, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Friday. According to intelligence gathered by Israel and shared with other countries, Hamas has established command-and-control rooms and tunnels under Shifa hospital in Gaza and uses the medical facility to shield its terrorist infrastructure. The IDF released phone recordings and images illustrating how Hamas is using the hospital.
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Israel Sharpens Warning to Lebanon Over Hezbollah Provocations
Latest Developments Israel will “send Lebanon back to the stone age” if provoked into war by Hezbollah, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on August 8 in a sharpened warning as friction with...
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Human Shields Allegedly Used by Iran-Backed Islamic Jihad
Latest Developments The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on May 11 that Israel waited two days to strike an Islamic Jihad commander because he was using his family as human shields. The commander, Ahmad...
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The United States and Saudi Arabia: A Possible Path Forward
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Palestinian Terrorist Groups Continue to Build Tunnels Under UNRWA Schools
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) announced that it identified a “man-made cavity” beneath an UNRWA school in the Gaza Strip. UNRWA stopped short of blaming Hamas or other militant organizations, saying that it “protested strongly to the relevant authorities.” The discovery is likely the latest example of a Palestinian terrorist organization using UN facilities, including schools, as shields for its belligerent activities against Israel.
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PGMs: Iran’s Precision-Guided Munitions Project in the Shadow of a Nuclear Deal
Memos
Hold Hamas Accountable for Human-Shields Use During the May 2021 Gaza War
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Time to Act on Human Shields
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Netanyahu Highlights Hezbollah Use of Human Shields
In his speech to the UN General Assembly today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provided three detailed examples of Hezbollah’s use of Lebanese civilians as human shields, which is a war crime....
Policy Briefs
U.N.’s Human Shields
As part of international efforts to end the conflict in southern Lebanon, there has emerged the scheme of a United Nations peacekeeping force to separate the opposing forces. NPR reports that U.N...
Op-eds
But Who Was Protecting Iraqis From Human Shields?
.By Norah Vincent The ironies of war are always bitter, but few are rich and still fewer have ever been quite so rich as those that have enshrouded the farcical crusaders we have...