Why does Hezzbolah use human beings as shields?

Question

I mean it's disgusting. Israelis have been asking thye civilians to leave and Hezzbolah is just manipulating them. WHY??

Answer 1

To increase the death toll, and thereby increase hatred of Israel. Terrorists understand perfectly how to manipulate the media, and also the power the media possesses. Not to mention it makes it harder to figure out who the actual terrorists are when they are mixed among the civillian population.


Lebanese public opinion poll.
Conducted by Markaz Bayrut li-l-Abhath touted as a reliable pollster.
70 % support the capture of the two Israeli soldiers (73.1 among Sunnis, 96.3 among Shi`ites, 40% among Druzes, and 55 among Christians)
87% support that "the resistance fight Israeli aggression on Lebanon" (88.9 among Sunnis, 96.3 among Shi`ites, 80% among Druzes, and 80% among Christians)

I read these number as at least 70% of the Lebanese people support what Hezbollah is doing in their country. So rational thought should tell you 2 things. A) they are not as innocent as purported in this matter, B) You cannot trust their statements or assessments of what is occurring in the battlezone because they have vested interests which may or may not conflict with the truth. This is not my poll and I did not make these numbers up, take from it what you will.

Answer 2

Yes, they sent flyers for people to leave, but the question is to where. You can ask some one to leave the room, but it only makes sense when the room's door is not closed.

Israel has Destroyed over a 100 bridges and 10s of major roads, if some one wanted to leave their house, they have to travel by foot for many miles and also they will have no where to eat or sleep.

So people decide to stay not because they were forced to or manipulated by Hezbollah, but because they want to stay in their homes.

I would appreciate it if you can provide independent and verifiable sources for your claim(other than what the Israelis are saying)

For your information, people in the area of today's massacre report that no rockets where fired from their area, so It would seem that the targeting of the building was made with previous knowledge that there were only civilians.

Another thing, why did Israel attack the UN post and kill 4 UN peace keepers, I guess Hezbollah was using the UN peace keepers(observers) as human shields also?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5215366.stm

Please check Israel's Human rights record:

http://hrw.org/doc/?t=mideast&c=isrlpa

You will see that more than once Israel has targeted civilians not even related to any sort of military conflict.

You have also to keep in mind Israel record setting breachs/vilations of UN security coucil resolutions:

http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-the-un-resolutions-concerning-israel-and-palestine

Answer 3

The Israeli and all the armies in the world know that guerrilla warfare is a different thing regarding civilians. When a force such as Hezbollah is so intertwinned with civilians you cannot even dream of telling them apart. It's the nature of guerrilla-dom. Hezbollah is not a regular army. They come together for specific purposes, and then disband to accomplish other goals or just lead their normal lives as plumbers, carpenters, drivers, etc. So, Israel knows that it's Israel the one targetting civilians.

Answer 4

Do u know that Israeli army has used Palestinian children as shields whenever they try to arrest militants?This is also disgusting...
"Based on testimonies gathered by the human rights organization, Israeli soldiers seized control of a building, holding six people – including two 14 and 16 year-old minors – on the staircase during violent fighting with Palestinian militants ".

Answer 5

Is that a fact?

Hisbulla is not using human shields, it's the merican "smart" bombs that are hitting civilians.

You should go to lebanon to know how it feels to live in a war. These civilian have no change to leave because the ways are bombed and everything that moves is hit by Israeli/american misiles.

Wake up people.

Answer 6

they don't , just most of Lebanese don't have any place to go
and that not a reason to let isreal kill hundreds of women and children , do you see what happen in Qana number two ???

Hezzbolah just defend on Lebanon Land and they have right
to do that , As isreal keep occupe some of lebanoon land like
"shbaa farms"

Answer 7

Why does Israel bomb innocent women and children?Why did Israel deliberately bomb the UN Observers and murder them? Why did Israeli gunboats attack the USS Liberty killing dozens of U.S. Sailors in 1967?

Answer 8

It's the terrorist way. No such thing as a noncombatant in their eyes. You are either there to help the cause, or you're the enemy.

Answer 9

Its the cowardly terrorist way to fight war and seems to me most Liberals support this , cause none are condemning Hezz, just Israel

Answer 10

because they are made up of cowards...the terrorists hezbollah like those in iraq and afghanistan can fight no other way...they do not mind hiding behind women and children.