The United Nations and its network of international NGOs have systematically whitewashed Hamas’s reliance on human shields in Gaza, sweeping aside mountains of evidence revealing how the terror group intentionally places civilians in harm’s way to maximize bloodshed, a new report finds.
The first-of-its-kind investigation, conducted by the Henry Jackson Society’s Centre for the New Middle East, presents “the ‘missing chapter’ in all the U.N. and NGO reports” issued since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. Its authors reveal in detail how the terror group transformed civilian residences and infrastructure into military outposts, all while evading international scrutiny.
One video referenced in the report, which Hamas members filmed themselves, shows terrorists planting mines among children’s toys inside a civilian building. Other pieces of evidence the Henry Jackson Society published include footage of rockets stored inside a child’s bed in a Gaza apartment and speakers—nestled among dolls and backpacks—playing the sounds of children crying, meant to lure Israeli soldiers into booby-trapped homes.
The U.N. has issued 367 individual reports on the war since Oct. 7, none of which affirmatively state that Hamas has turned residential areas into battlefields and hid behind civilians.
