Links to Videos and Reports Demonstrating Hamas’s Use of Human Shields during Operation Cast Lead, Dec. 27, 2008 – Jan. 18, 2009

Footage of a terrorist shooting from a roof top. The terrorist then identifies an Israel Air Force (IAF) aircraft preparing to fire on him and calls a group of children into the house where he is located to prevent the IAF strike. He then flees the house using the children as cover.
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/Hebrew/heb_n/video/v9.wmv 

Footage of a group of terrorists, one a senior operative, using children and a woman with a baby as human shields. Footage includes IAF radio communications instructing the aircraft operator not to fire on the terrorists because of the woman and children among them.
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/Hebrew/heb_n/video/v11.wmv 

Footage of a civilian building in which weapons and explosives were being stored. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) telephoned the residents of the building, telling them to leave so they would not be harmed by the planned airstrike. Numerous civilians appear on the rooftop to prevent the airstrike, which was then called off.
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/Hebrew/heb_n/video/v12b.wmv 

Footage of Hamas operatives arming a rocket launcher in a school yard in Gaza. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN9WzUc7iB0&feature=channel_page 

A house concealing a smuggling tunnel and explosives is targeted by the IAF. Secondary explosions attest to the house's use as a weapon storage facility. Relevant footage is at minute 2:10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2m4HbiIKKA&feature=channel_page 

Hamas operatives firing mortar shells from a civilian rooftop. Relevant footage is at 0:18.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHNk6eBw3ME&feature=channel_page 

Explanation of a Hamas map of the al-Tatraa neighborhood in Gaza City which was captured by IDF forces. The map details booby traps, improvised explosive devices and sniper positions within this civilian neighborhood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI1q3etFX2k&feature=channel_page 

Footage of a booby-trapped zoo and school in Gaza discovered by IDF forces.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHhs9ihSmbU&feature=channel_page 

Footage of a weapons cache and an anti-aircraft cannon discovered by IDF forces in a mosque in the Zeitoun neighborhood of the Gaza Strip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zd55Zhj5gQ&feature=channel_page 

Footage of a mosque containing an explosives cache targeted by an IAF strike. Secondary explosions attest to the mosque’s use as a weapons storage facility. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwP_LusgPAw&feature=channel_page 

Footage of greenhouses used as weapons storage facilities being hit by IAF airstrikes. Secondary explosions attest to the greenhouses’ use as weapons storage facilities. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p--x0NCdJH4&feature=channel_page 

Footage of a mosque containing an explosives cache targeted by an IAF strike. Secondary explosions attest to the mosque’s use as a weapons storage facility. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCVr7MBhgj0&feature=channel_page   

Review of testimonies of Gazans to the media discussing Hamas’ use of ambulances during the operation, Hamas operatives’ use of civilian houses against their owners' will and Hamas’ use of hospitals as operational bases.
“Gazans Tell How Hamas Used Them As Human Shields,” Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, Jan. 28, 2009,
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/pdf/hamas_e052.pdf

Testimony of a Hamas operative captured by IDF forces during Operation Cast Lead, regarding Hamas’s practice of firing rockets in close proximity to schools and photographic evidence of Hamas’s use of civilian structures for military purposes.
“Evidence of the Use of the Civilian Population as Human Shields,” Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, Feb. 4, 2009,
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/pdf/hamas_e055.pdf