A senior member of Hamas is seen bragging about the terrorist group’s use of women, children, and the elderly as “human shields” in a video recently translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). Fathi Hammad, a member of the Hamas parliament, is seen saying that Hamas terrorists “have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen [militants], in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine.”
Hammad explained to his listeners that civilians were used as human shields because “the Palestinian people has developed its death and death-seeking...death has become an industry at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land.” Hammad implied that civilians serve willingly as human shields, “as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: we desire death like you desire life.”