Of all the phrases that get tossed about in fierce arguments over the current war in Gaza, one of the most common might be “human shield.”
In both the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, and Israel’s attacks on Gaza in the four months since then, civilians accounted for at least two-thirds of the victims.
Israel has argued that Hamas deliberately uses the civilian population of the Gaza Strip both to shield its fighters and to attempt to discredit Israel’s legitimate efforts to defend itself — by portraying Israel as a callous killer of civilians in the court of public opinion, and in the Court of
