Browsing Posts published on January 12, 2009

Hamas turns a school into a trap for Israeli forces. Were the kids supposed to go to school in the wired building, too?

Also, the New York Times reports on Hamas’s fighting tactics in apartment blocks, booby-trapping corridors and living areas, while fighting out of uniform.

The fact that Hamas has been hiding behaind Gaza’s civilians for the past few weeks comes as no surprise.  News articles from the past several years have chronicled these exploitative tactics as they developed and were implemented.

Notable among these articles is one from 2006 by Alan Johnston of the BBC on how children and old men gathered to prevent an Israeli operation.

Also, we bring you below an article from the LA Times, on the same topic. continue reading…