Liberation, from a French MP: It is Israel that uses civilians as human shields, not Hamas

The editor-in-chief of the magazine "Current Values," Tugdall Dennis, was accused by the newspaper "Liberation" of "using all elements of the language of Israeli diplomacy," implying that he does not support Israel's current use of civilians as human shields, as Israel is, and that the Palestinians and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) do. David Guiraud, the representative of the Proud France party, defended his party's position on the Israeli war on Gaza during a television debate.

The MP stated that while there have been Israeli soldiers found guilty of using a 9-year-old Palestinian child as a human shield when they asked him to open a parcel bomb that could explode in his face and had weapons aimed at him, no Hamas member had ever been found guilty of doing so.

Arcom, the audiovisual policeman, was questioned by the newspaper's news verification department after numerous Internet users reacted negatively to what they saw as "dangerous slander" on social media. Arcom responded by stating that David Giroux was referring to "publications on this subject issued by Doctors Without Borders and the Israeli organization B'Tselem, a non-governmental organization that records cases of human rights violations in the occupied territories."

According to the newspaper, there is a 2017 article on the B'Tselem website that discusses Israeli soldiers' use of human shields. Along with other human rights organizations, the organization filed a motion against this practice, particularly in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with the Israeli Supreme Court of Justice in 2002. The West.

In a report on this event, The Guardian newspaper explained that Majed Rabah, a young guy, had been taking shelter in a shelter when he was ordered, at gunpoint, to check for explosives in bags during the Israeli "Cast Lead" offensive on Gaza in January 2009. In Gaza City's Tal Al-Hawa district, he shared a basement with his family.

The British media reported in 2010 that the two soldiers responsible for this incident had been demoted from staff sergeant to sergeant and had received a sentence of three months in prison with a suspended sentence.

They were put through a military trial that was conducted in secret and found guilty of "inappropriate behavior."

Israel has accused Hamas of using hostages and Gazans as human shields against Israeli bombing since the movement's October 7 attack. These accusations are not new; Israel claims that the movement has done this by either putting military arsenals in residential areas or by preventing residents from leaving the Gaza Strip. As always, Hamas denies it.

Source: Liberation