Professor Neve Gordon spoke to Firstpost about human shields.
Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Hezbollah of using civilians as human shields after Israel said it had attacked over 800 Hezbollah positions in Lebanon. But is Hezbollah really doing so? What does international law say?
And what about Gaza? Since the war in Gaza began, Israel has continuously directed citizens to move from one area to the next to avoid becoming casualties. Experts have said such warnings give Israel the ability to claim that Hamas is using the population as proximate shields.
“Temporally, proximate shielding can endure far longer than either voluntary or involuntary shielding, because the latter two are restricted to the time during which the civilian acts or is forced into acting as a shield,” said Neve Gordon, Professor of International Law and Human Rights at Queen Mary University of London. “The warnings are dropped to relax the repertoire of violence that is permitted in that area.” Read the full article in Firstpost.
Professor Gordon was also featured in an TRT World article on Recycled playbook: How Israel uses Gaza genocide justification in Lebanon.