[monocle]

"Under international humanitarian law - also known as the laws of war - parties to an armed conflict must not make the civilian population the object of attack, or fire indiscriminately into civilian areas. Nor can they launch attacks that they know will cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects that exceeds the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated. Such attacks constitute war crimes," the site explained.

I am not a fan of Human Rights Watch, but the boldfaced passage above appears to the human shield issue.

[Mr. Mojo]

No, it doesn't. The passage you outlined speaks of the targeting of civilian areas, not the use of civilian areas to launch attacks. Quite a distinction.