The Star-Ledger · Newark, New Jersey · 20 November 2006
CP-2006-003
Palestinian human shields thwart Israeli airstrikes on Gaza homes
Sarah El Deeb, The Associated Press, Beit Lahiya
Transcribed from the clipping
“Hundreds of Palestinians serving as human shields guarded the homes of two top militants yesterday, a new tactic that forced Israel to call off missile strikes… Israeli security officials said they did not know how to respond to the human shield tactic… ‘Death to Israel, Death to America,’ the crowds chanted… The army said it called off the nighttime airstrikes because of the crowds. It condemned what it said was a cynical exploitation ‘by the terrorists of uninvolved people as human shields.’”
Context added by this archive
The pivot. The Associated Press calls it a new tactic, the shields are volunteers, and the Israeli army supplies the sentence in which the same words mean the opposite.
Cite this item
"Palestinian human shields thwart Israeli airstrikes on Gaza homes," The Star-Ledger, 20 November 2006. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2006-003. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2006-003
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- Israel bans film about battle at refugee campThe Star-Ledger · 29 December 2002 · the same newspaper
- A family shatteredHouston Chronicle · 8 June 2006 · the same year
- Gaza Strip: Israeli air strikesPost Bulletin · 4 November 2006 · the same year
- U.S. nun, priest are human shields at Palestinian militant’s houseThe Beaumont Enterprise · 23 November 2006 · the same year
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