Human Shields: Shielding the Truth

Israeli commentator Amos Oz, in a 20 July opinion piece in the Evening Standard, used the term "human sandbags". His claim was run in a front-page news story in the paper, with the huge headline 'The Human Sandbags'. He was the only source in the article, and there was no attempt to ask human rights groups, journalists or Lebanese officials to verify whether this very serious allegation is true.more...