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Using Palestinians as human shields by the Israeli militarty is not new. It goes back at least to the first Intifada. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has seen the Israeli military using dozens of Palestinians as human shields, including by forcing them to enter tunnels and or staging footage of them throwing away guns to tell the Israeli public that they were Hamas fighters who surrendered to the Israeli army. Yousef Aljamal, Helena Cobban and Tony Groves discuss mass arrests, using Palestinians as human shields in Gaza, and starvation in Gaza in light of the war on campuses in the U.S in this episode about Gaza and the West Bank

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