In the first incident of its kind, hundreds of neighbours surrounded the home of Mohammed Baroud and climbed on its roof after he received a call from the Israeli army informing him he had 30 minutes to vacate his home before it was destroyed by missiles.
The Israeli airforce called off its strike because of the risk of killing a large number of civilians.
It means of its kind in the Palestinian situation, because actually this kind of action has a good track record. Note that it is not without it's risks, but neither is the alternative.
Palestinians use human shield to halt Israeli air strike on militants' homes | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited:
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2 comments:
I suspect it will not work the next time - spirited attempt at resistance that it was.
Joe
I'd be interested to know why not. I think that it is likely that the Israeli army will rethink tactics. It was not an attempt at resistance, it was resistance and successful for the time being. The question is whether the IDF can manage to present more brutal measures to the world as somehow justified. The probable reason for the success in this instance was the surprise and the desire not to be seen to be acting oppressively...
I think...
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