Hamas använder barn som sköldar och soldater

En några minuters video som visar hur Hamas gömmer sig bland civila och använder barn som sköldar kan ses här.
Med Hamas taktik är det ett under att inte fler civila fått sätta livet till. Ibland omringas Hamas skyttar av tiotals ungdomar.

Såhär beskrivs situationen i den arabisk israeliska tidningen Kul Al-Arab. (översättning PMW)

The following is the description of the children's combat support roles, quoted in an Israeli Arab weekly:
"[The newspaper] Kul Al-Arab called many Gaza Strip residents, to comprehend the situation of the people who are suffering for two weeks from the wild Israeli aggression...Khaled, from A-Rimal [in Gaza], said: 'We the children, in small groups and in civilian clothes, are fulfilling missions of support for the [Hamas] Resistance fighters, by transmitting messages about the movements of the enemy forces, or by bringing them ammunition and food. We ourselves are not aware of the movements of the Resistance fighters. We see them in one place, they suddenly disappear, and then reappear somewhere else. They are like ghosts, it is very hard to find them or hurt them.'"
[Kul-Al-Arab (Israeli Arab weekly), January 9, 2009]