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The RSF accused the army of using Zamzam as "a military barracks, and innocent civilians as human shields".

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Israel's government said it was evacuating civilians to protect them from harm and from being used by Hamas as "human shields" in violation of international law.

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Similarly, so did influential recruiter Joe Shields and new academy technical director Glenn van der Kraan.

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The military also accused Hamas of violating international law by deliberately using the civilian population as human shields.

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Department of Agriculture conditioned its aid to California on abiding by Trump directives — and cited a federal investigation into a state law that prohibits schools from automatically notifying families about student gender-identity changes and shields teachers from retaliation for supporting transgender student rights.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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