IDF says Hamas attacked troops as they opened Gaza evacuation corridor for civilians

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The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday accused the Hamas terror group of attacking Israeli troops working to open up a humanitarian corridor for Palestinians to evacuate from northern Gaza to its south.

The military has for weeks been urging northern Gaza residents to evacuate southward, warning them it will be focusing its military efforts on the Gaza City area, the heart of Hamas’s rule and its main base of operations in Gaza. At least 800,000 of some one million residents of the area have done so.

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From what I can dig up, the IDF did have a policy of using human shields before 2004. But the supreme Court ruled that illegal after 2005.

Namely the "early warning procedure".

I did see some articles referring to other policies, but I couldn't find a neutral source to support those.

https://international-review.icrc.org/sites/default/files/irrc_856_2.pdf

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v2/rule97?country=il

Check B'Tselem and other such organizations. They tend to document every single case they encounter.

I've done my research. The last incident I can find is from The early 2000s.

If you have evidence that their contemporary are ROE includes human shields I would love to see it.

The Israeli military are not the heroes here, I'm perfectly happy to admit that, but human shields are bad, we don't want people to be used to shields. As far as I can tell they modified their behavior in 2005 and have not been taking human shields, we should at least give them credit for that in the contemporary conflict, so they're not encouraged to take up human shields again.

With the ongoing genocide, and ethnic cleansing, there's enough criticism to make a damning case anyway.

Again I welcome evidence of human shields in the contemporary conflict

Here https://lemmy.world/comment/5086511

That's not contemporaneous. I believe that's 2004. Again, they used to, but are they doing it in the current conflict?

It happened in 2022.

That's not what the BBC says.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3650791.stm

2004

This isn't the one we are disputing. You posted the wrong link.

You gave me a link to a Lemmy post, I've given you the response to that lemmy post.

Don't blame me, I'm going out of my way to work with you on sources. You're not making it easy