Arab Palestinian use of own children as human shields - aleady in 1970 (at least), and in the 1980s
Arab Palestinian use of own children as human shields - aleady in 1970 (at least), and in the 1980s
Prevent World War III. - Issues 77-78 - 1971, Page 6
We fully support the granting of humanitarian assistance wherever people lack the means of livelihood . We are deeply disturbed , however , by the manner in which guerrilla and terrorist groups have been permitted to use refugee camps in a way that has disturbed the peace of the Middle East , imperilled the security of both Israel and Jordan , and directly harmed the interests of the United States . A relief agency must be divorced from politics — both domestic and international...
When a reporter for Life magazine managed to secure an interview with Dr. George Habash, leader of the guerrilla group that has instigated the hijacking of international jet liners, the meeting place turned out to be a building attached to a refugee camp. "Outside the closed doors, armed fedayeen stood guard," the Life correspondent wrote.
Even the children are involved. As far back as May, 1969, the Arab World (publication of the official Arab Information Center in New York) said: "In the refugee camps, Palestinian youth aged 8 to 14 receive military, political and athletic training after school as members of Al Ashbal (Lion Cub), the scout movement of the Palestine National Liberation Movement. ”In the schools maintained by UNRWA the same abuses are found. Young Jordanian children are asked to analyze the sentence: "The Arab soldiers will lead our enemies to the slaughter."
And the Syrian Minister of Education , responding to inquiries from UNESCO (which is supposed to play a part in directing these schools) wrote: "The hatred which we indoctrinate into the minds of our children from birth is sacred."
Current World Leaders - Page 676 - International Academy at Santa Barbara, 1982
PLO Subversion of Lebanon
The terrorists sought and found new bases in Lebanon. Taking advantage of the weakness of the Lebanese system of government, and with the help and complicity of the other Arab governments , they gradually forced their control on the Palestinian Arab refugee camps and established a comprehensive network of organizational training and logistical facilities .
Terrorist attacks against Israel became more frequent and grew in intensity. Today, complete anarchy reigns in Lebanon.
The country is in fact occupied and divided into different areas of control, while the central government is completely ineffective and, in fact, controls no territory. The PLO, which established a large area of control extending from the Tyre bulge to South Beirut, has profited from this anarchy.
In effect , this area has become a state within a state, in which the PLO has de facto extraterrirorial rights...
The Deliberate Use of Civilians as Shields
Since the beginning of its operations against Israel, the PLO has cynically used heavily populated areas – such as refugee camps or inhabited areas in Beirut and other towns in Lebanon – as bases of operation.
Aware of the Israeli reluctance to harm innocent civilians, it has thus often used the latter as human shields. And indeed Israel acted with restraint, it elected not to attack targets in the midst of the refugee camps or the towns, but on their peripheries, in order to spare innocent human lives and cause as few casualties as possible. This same principle applies to Beirut.
The terrorists chose to locate their offices in seven to eight story buildings, using the intermediate floors for offices, while those beneath and above were inhabited by civilians – who shielded them.
United States Policy Toward Lebanon-relief and Rehabilitation ...
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1983
THE PLO THREAT
Israel has found in Lebanon enough PLO weapons to equip a massive army and to supply untold numbers of terrorist cadres...
Arafat boasts of PLO terrorists serving in El Salvador, Angola and ...
In two ways however, the PLO was different from conventional armies. First, the PLO consciously attacked only civilians and, secondly, the PLO used civilians as human shields to protect itself. Anyone who has been to the small country of Israel knows that there are many military targets to be easily found. ..
Yet, the PLO could only find those “military" targets disguised as kibbutz nurseries, school buses, marketplaces or passenger airplanes.
And the second factor that differentiates the PLO terrorist army from conventional armies is its hiding in the midst of civilian centers.
Israeli troops uncovered PLO arsenals, emplacements and bases in schools, mosques, and apartment basements. According to Newsweek, June 14, Israeli soldiers in one engagement, were attacked by PLO fighters disguised as hospital patients.
The Media's War Against Israel: The Full Exposé No One Dared Publish - Stephen Karetzky, Peter E. Goldman - Steimatzky/Shapolsky, 1986 - Arab-Israeli conflict - 423 pages - p.266
By training their cameras on the stark rubble and bloody civilian casualties, the television reporters transformed the reality of Israel's most ... and the agony and casualties such attacks cause, and by rarely explaining how the PLO used civilians as shields, the knights of the Electronic Cyclops failed to give viewers a balanced picture of the fighting...
responsibility for the carnage, or about the PLO's right to use the Lebanese capital's civilian population as hostages to his political maneuverings.
World Refugee Survey - Page 112 - 1994
... these organizations had "encamped themselves within civilian population centers in southern Lebanon, using the civilians as human shields and enabling them to launch Katyusha rockets and other weapons against Israeli soldiers and civilians with impunity. Faced with this deliberate provocation and escalation, Israel was forced to respond."
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