Nicola Perugini

Des­ig­nat­ing safe ar­eas in Gaza al­lows the Is­raeli army to car­ry out war crimes more ef­fi­cient­ly and then to deny them.

This would be detri­men­tal not only to Unit­ed Na­tions agen­cies, but also to the glob­al hu­man rights regime.

The hu­man shield ac­cu­sa­tion has be­come an in­creas­ing­ly com­mon de­fence when states act im­moral­ly.

Des­per­ate­ly try­ing to jus­ti­fy the killing of un­armed pro­test­ers, Is­rael once again uses its ‘hu­man shields’ mantra.

Why is the US Con­gress sanc­tion­ing Hezbol­lah over “hu­man shields” now?

What is Is­raeli set­tler trau­ma and will a new law le­gal­is­ing il­le­gal set­tle­ments “cure” it?

How the in­ter­na­tion­al coali­tion is fram­ing civil­ians in Iraq as ISIL’s hu­man shields.

Rev­e­la­tions about Is­rael’s in­fil­tra­tion of NGOs in the 1970s shocked many, but hu­man rights ‘spies’ are still out there.

State-sanc­tioned eth­nic cleans­ing and hu­man rights vi­o­la­tions are what en­abled the Jew­ish set­tlers to oc­cu­py lands.

By claim­ing that the oth­er side is us­ing hu­man shields, the at­tack­er pro­vides it­self with a pre-emp­tive le­gal de­fence.