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In “Military Attacks on ‘Hospital Shield: The Law Itself is Partly to Blame,” the authors address the dangers of analogizing between human shields and hospitals, but their seemingly categorical criticism that humanitarian law (the law of armed conflict) is at fault for permitting the analogy to be made is exaggerated. If a hospital is being […]https://i0.wp.com/www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/blue-logo.png?fit=178%2C60&ssl=117860