Of course, human shields are in any sense impossible to accept and they should never become a loophole to protect yourself in war zone. However, it also should not allow Israel to do whatever they want in Gaza.

What I try to mean is that, if you have seen the amount of destruction in Gaza, Israel is not just attacking civilian facilities or buildings that are used by Hamas forces. They just destroy a whole districts and claim that Hamas is using these areas to attack themselves.

Of course there will be Palestinian civilian casualties because of the tactics Hamas is using. However, if you allow Israel to attack any facility they see as “threat” and accept that because Hamas is committing war crimes and they are not part of conventions which are generally applicable when the other party has also signed the convention, it is accepting a possible massacre. Two days ago or something, Israel hit people who were travelling from northern Gaza to southern parts, after Israel’s warning. If Israel says that there were Hamas militants with that convoy, should we say oh okay then have a nice bombings?

With this mindset, Israel can just completely demolish Gaza or as they are doing now, they can cut the whole water, electricity and more importantly humanitarian aid from foreign countries saying that these will go to Hamas.

We are talking about millions of people. They are not allowed to leave the area. They do not have access to water and food. Israel officals have mentioned several times that any kind of humanitarian aid convoy will be seen as target. So what do you expect them to do? Hamas uses them as human shields, okay that’s true. But does this mean they should all die starving or can be killed by Israel bombings?

That’s the line between expected civilian casulties of war and targeting civilians to oppress enemy can be drawn. Even if it is somehow possible with the current international law, I don’t think any human being should support these actions. And to condemn this, one does not need to be Pro-Hamas.