Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Human shield
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Pro-Palestinian activists=== [[Rabbis for Human Rights]] agreed to act as "human shields" during the annual olive harvest to protect Palestinian villages from settlers.<ref>[http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1026228.html "Settlers clash with rabbis guarding Palestinian olive harvest near Hebron"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206000936/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1026228.html |date=December 6, 2008}} Haaretz, October 13, 2008 Associated Press.</ref> [[Rachel Corrie]] and [[Tom Hurndall]], Western [[International Solidarity Movement]] (ISM) volunteers in the [[Palestinian territories]], who died in 2003 and 2004 respectively have been described as "human shields" campaigning against house demolition. ISM, however, strongly takes offence at the use of the term ''human shield'' to describe their work, preferring it be used only to refer to when armed combatants uses civilians as shields.<ref>"[http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1464.shtml ISM report] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705153618/http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1464.shtml |date=July 5, 2008}}", May 5, 2003.</ref>{{bsn|date=December 2024}} Not even Amnesty International defines volunteer activist's actions or activist's actions for non-military property as "human shields", and regards only the direction of "specific civilians to remain in their homes as "human shields" for fighters, munitions, or military equipment" as "human shields".<ref name="MDE 15/017/2014">[https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/017/2014/en/ "Document - Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Israel/Gaza conflict"]. Amnesty International. July 2014.</ref> According to the 3 definitions in the header of this article the 'volunteers to protect Palestinians' make them not "human shields outside the battlefield" but protesters or ordinary pro-Palestinian demonstrants.
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)