Yehudit Barsky, has an excellent monograph on the Hamas terrorist group.

Barsky is the Director of the Division on Middle East and International Terrorism at the American Jewish Committee.

You can read Barsky’s work on Hamas here:

Hamas – The Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine – Yehudit Barsky

Ramping up pressure on Hamas, Hamas leaders, and the Palestinian Authority, eleven Palestinian human rights organization are demanding that they endorse the U.N. Goldstone Report recommendation to investigate Palestinian violations of international law allegedly committed during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead offensive in Gaza from late December 2008 through January 2009.

According to the report in Ha’aretz, the Palestinian organizations urging the probe include:

• Adallah
• the Arab Association for Human Rights
• the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
• Al-Haq
• the Adameer prisoner’s rights group, and
• the Women’s Center for Legal Aid and Counselling.

The Goldstone Report criticized, in part, terror attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups on Israeli civilians, violent attacks and internal repression, like summary executions in the Gaza Strip, as well as arrests and torture in the West Bank

Here’s a shocking video taken by Israeli Defense Force troops of a Palestinian school and zoo that was extensively wired by Hamas with explosives.



The video speaks for itself.

Hamas used human shields again when terror operatives fired mortars from a U.N. school in Jabaliah / Jabalyah, Northern Gaza today.

Imad Abu Askhar and Hassan Abu Askhar were among the two (2) Hamas slain gunmen identified amongst the dead.

An initial IDF inquiry concluded that in “response to the incoming enemy fire, [Israeli] forces returned mortar fire to the source.” which came directly from the school.

This is yet another example of Hamas repeatedly using civilian population centers as human shields.

What were U.N. school authorities doing to prevent such blatant violations of the U.N.’s use of the property for educational purposes? What will Ban Ki-moon have to say about the latest incident using children and school employees as human shields?

The following video taken by an IAF drone in 2007 shows an attack in progress when terrorists launched rockets from a U.N.-operated school in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon deplored the attack, calling it a an “abuse of UN facilities, which is a serious violation of the UN’s privileges and immunities…[and the type of] actions that endanger the lives of civilians, especially children.”