[Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News] Look how crowded Gaza is!

Last summer, when some news agencies started realizing belatedly that Hamas was firing rockets from civilian areas, Hamas answered them:

But Hamas says it had little choice in Gaza's crowded urban landscape, took safeguards to keep people away from the fighting, and that a heavy-handed Israeli response is to blame for the deaths of hundreds of Palestinian civilians.

"Gaza, from Beit Hanoun in the north to Rafah in the south, is one uninterrupted urban chain that Israel has turned into a war zone," said Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official in Gaza.

AP didn't challenge the obvious lie.

Amnesty International also seemed to buy that Hamas line, even giving it the primatur of international law!

Each party to the conflict must, to the extent feasible, avoid locating military objectives within or near densely populated areas.67 The authoritative commentary of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on this provision explains that the use of the term “feasible” is used to illustrate “the fact that no one can be required to do the impossible. In this case it is clear that precautions should not go beyond the point where the life of the population would become difficult or even impossible.” And it notes: “Moreover, a Party to the conflict cannot be expected to arrange its armed forces and installations in such a way as to make them conspicuous to the benefit of the adversary.”

Yes, amnesty justified Hamas' use of human shields by claiming that they it would be "impossible" to do otherwise..

Here are some photos of Hamas military exercises taken today, from areas in Gaza that are obviously controlled by Hamas and from which they could have easily fought from. See if you can find any civilian homes in any of these photos:

So crowded!




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Posted By Elder of Ziyon to Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News at 12/13/2014 06:05:00 PM