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Human shield
Human shield is a military and political term describing the deliberate placement of civilians in or around combat targets to deter an enemy from attacking those targets. It may also refer to the use of civilians to literally shield combatants during attacks, by forcing the civilians to march in front of the soldiers. This is done in the hope that the other party will be reluctant to attack them. Furthermore, if the other party attacks these targets anyway, the resulting civilian casualties have propaganda value. Using this technique increases the civilian casualty rate and is illegal by any nation that is party to the Fourth Geneva Convention.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of human shield in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
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The numerical value of human shield in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of human shield in a Sentence
The international community must not consider Hamas’s platform as a change in policy for the movement, which in reality works every day to indiscriminately murder Jews and Israelis while exploiting Gaza's civilian population as a human shield.
They behave like pillagers and marauders. And, you know, there is a lot of information about the future provocations that brood in Mariupol and other territories where the Ukrainians are now trying to use the civilians as a human shield, talk to the Indians, the Arabs, and the Africans that are trying to flee Ukraine now. They are not allowed.
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