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that hopes to draw and keeps your attention for both the global 21th. century 3rd. feminist revolution as well
as especially for the Zan, Zendegi, Azadi uprising in Iran and the
struggles of our sisters in other parts of the Middle East. This online magazine
that started December 2019 will
be published every week. Thank you for your time and interest.
Gino d'Artali
indept investigative
journalist
radical feminist and women's rights activist
'WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM'
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Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
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Gianna d'Artali.
Al Jazeera - Oct 20, 2024 - By Neve Gordon
Professor of International Law at Queen Mary University of London.
<<Israel has taken human shields to a whole new criminal level
The use of Palestinian civilians as 'human baits' in Gaza demonstrates
how racism informs Israel's warfare practices.
The use of human shields in war is not a new phenomenon. Militaries have
forced civilians to serve as human shields for centuries. Yet, despite
this long and dubious history, Israel has managed to introduce a new
form of shielding in Gaza, one that appears unprecedented in the history
of warfare.
The practice was initially revealed by Al Jazeera but, subsequently,
Haaretz published an entire expose about how Israeli troops have
abducted Palestinian civilians, dressed them in military uniforms,
attached cameras to their bodies, and sent them into underground tunnels
as well as buildings in order to shield Israeli troops. "[I]t’s hard to
recognise them. They’re usually wearing Israeli army uniforms, many of
them are in their 20s, and they’re always with Israeli soldiers of
various ranks," the Haaretz article notes. But if you look more closely,
"you see that most of them are wearing sneakers, not army boots. And
their hands are cuffed behind their backs and their faces are full of
fear." In the past, Israeli troops have used robots and trained dogs
with cameras on their collars as well as Palestinian civilians to serve
as shields. However, Palestinians who were used as shields always wore
civilian clothes and thus could be identified as civilians. By dressing
Palestinian civilians in military garb and sending them into the
tunnels, the Israeli military has, in effect, altered the very logic of
human shielding. Indeed, human shielding has historically been
predicated on recognising that the person shielding a military target is
a vulnerable civilian (or prisoner of war). This recognition is meant to
deter the opposing warring party from attacking the target because the
vulnerability of the human shield ostensibly invokes moral restraints on
the use of lethal violence. It is precisely the recognition of
vulnerability that is key to the purported effectiveness of human
shielding and for deterrence to have a chance of working. By dressing
Palestinian civilians in Israeli military uniforms and casting them as
combatants the Israeli military purposefully conceals their
vulnerability. It deploys them as shields not to deter Palestinian
fighters from striking Israeli soldiers, but rather to draw their fire
and thus reveal their location, allowing the Israeli troops to launch a
counterattack and kill the fighters. The moment these human shields,
masked as soldiers, are sent into the tunnels, they are transformed from
vulnerable civilians into fodder. The Israeli army's treatment of
Palestinian civilians as expendable might not come as a surprise given
the racialised form of colonial governance to which they have been
subjected for decades. The deep-seated racism explains the ease with
which Israeli President Isaac Herzog publicly claimed that there are <no
innocent civilians> in the Gaza Strip as well as the prevailing
indifference among Israel’s Jewish public to the tens of thousands of
Palestinian civilians who have been killed. Indeed, Israelis were not
shocked when their political leaders repeatedly called to <erase> Gaza,
<flatten> it, and turn it <into Dresden>. They have either supported or
have been apathetic towards the damage and destruction of 60 percent of
all civilian structures and sites in Gaza. Within this context, dressing
Palestinian civilians in military garb and sending them into tunnels is
likely to be perceived in the eyes of most Israeli soldiers - and large
sections within the Israeli public - as not much more than a detail.
Nonetheless, this new form of human shielding does shed important light
on how racism plays out in the battlefield. It reveals that the military
has taken to heart and operationalised Defence Minister Yoav Gallant's
racist guidelines that <we are fighting human animals>, exposing how
Israeli soldiers are relating to Palestinians as either bait or prey.
Like hunters who use raw meat to lure animals they want to capture or
kill, the Israeli troops use Palestinian civilians as if they were bare
flesh whose function is to attract the hunter's prey. Racism also
informs Israel's disregard for international law. By randomly detaining
Palestinian civilians - including youth and the elderly - and then
dressing them in military garb before forcing them to walk in front of
soldiers, the Israeli troops violate not only the legal provision
against the use of human shields but also the provision that deals with
perfidy and prohibits warring parties from making use of military
<uniforms of adverse Parties while engaging in attacks or in order to
shield, favour, protect or impede military operations>. Two war crimes
in a single action. The horrifying truth, however, is that no matter how
much evidence emerges around Israel's use of this new human shielding
practice or indeed any other breach of international law, the likelihood
that it will change actions on the ground is small. Hopes that
international law will protect and bring justice to the Palestinian
people have historically been misplaced because colonial racism - as
critical legal scholars from Antony Anghie to Noura Erekat have pointed
out - informs not merely Israel’s actions but also the international
legal order, including the way the International Criminal Court (ICC)
metes out justice. To get a glimpse of this racism, all one needs to do
is browse the website of the International Criminal Court to see who it
has been willing to indict.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not
necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.>>
Source:
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/10/20/israel-has-taken-human-shields-to-a-whole-new-criminal-level
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