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A human shield is the deliberate placement of non-combatants in or around combat targets to deter the enemy from attacking them.
Human shield may also refer to:
- Human shield (law)
- Human Shield (political party), a political party in Croatia
- The Human Shield, a 1991 American film
- Human shields in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Use of human shields by Hamas
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