By Sameh A. Habeeb.
The Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, were responding to a statement made earlier this week by Member of the Knesset about using humans as shields.
Gaza – Ma’an – The use of Hamas and Islamic Jihad prisoners as human shields protecting Israeli targets will precipitate the use of long-range shells reaching deep into Israel, said a statement by the Al-Quds Brigades on Monday.
The Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, were responding to a statement made earlier this week by Member of the Knesset (MK) with the center-right Likud party Gilad Arden who was quoted in the Israeli daily paper Maariv calling for the use of Islamic Jihad and Hamas prisoners as human shields to protect Israeli sites from projectile attacks.
Arden was responding to the reports of eight injured Israeli soldiers on Friday after several projectiles were launched from the Gaza Strip.
“Such statements explain the Israeli political failure,” said Al-Quds Brigades spokesperson Abu Hamza. He added that any new efforts will not succeed and that Israel had failed in beating Palestinian resistance.
The truce between Israel and the Gaza-factions was only approved so Palestinian citizens would be protected. Using Palestinians as human shields would be a total and gross violation of that agreement, Abu Hamza added, and blamed Israel for allowing the truce to fail.
