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    3 days ago

    And yes, Hamas is playing an asymmetrical game and using the rules of engagement as a shield

    They’re not, for the most part. This is Israeli propaganda that really took hold, but there was never any evidence for the human shields stuff.

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      Yep it’s actually Israel that has routinely and systematically employed captured Palestinians as human shields. For some background, there is this recent article in Haaretz stemming from anonymous IDF soldier reports, titled “In Gaza, Almost Every IDF Platoon Keeps a Human Shield, a Sub-army of Palestinian Slaves”.