I keep seeing this online and in person. I don’t know how to respond

  • Elon_Musk [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    The definitely not true. You can search back and find claims of palestine using human sheilds way back in 2002, but it really picked up in 2008ish. Amnesty International had to put out a statement in 2009 saying there was no evidence for the claim.

    It just likely never came up in your personal news sources. And yes of course Israel has used Palestinians & children as human sheilds.

    • very_poggers_gay [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      oh word, thanks for clarifying. i just remember when i was debating some redditor and restricted a google search to pre-2023, and there was a few reports from HRW or the UN that stuck out