HAMAS LOCKS CHILDREN OUTSIDE DURING CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE!

Harry Liberman

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Imagine a father who locks his children outside in the front yard during a Category 5 hurricane while he retreats into a custom-built, reinforced concrete storm cellar in the backyard. In any civilized nation, society would not debate the nuance of his parenting.

The state would arrest him. The public would revile him. 

He would be aggressively prosecuted under criminal statutes for child abandonment, reckless endangerment, and criminal negligence.

This is not a far-fetched legal hypothetical. Across global jurisdictions, courts routinely hand down severe prison sentences to guardians who expose children to severe weather as a form of control or neglect. For instance, in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, Foster Parents Faced Child Neglect Charges after a neighbor’s viral video exposed them locking a 7-year-old girl outside unprotected in freezing temperatures and snow wearing only pajamas and socks. Similarly, in Richmond County, Georgia, A Mother Was Arrested for Child Deprivation after sheriff’s deputies and crisis workers caught her locking her children out of the house for the seventh time in two weeks, forcing them to sleep outside on a trampoline during pouring rainstorms.

The law is clear, unyielding, and absolute: a guardian who retreats to safety while forcing children to bear the brunt of a deadly storm is a criminal who belongs behind bars.

HAMAS: THE UNDERGROUND COWARDS

Shielding their warriors [wearing civilian clothing to blend in with the crowd ] while  intentionally weaponizing  their own children by sacrificing them  to provoke  the anti Jewish mob.  Yet, on the international stage, a cross-border network of apologists, activists, and legal sophists continue to make excuses for an identical, macro-level crime against humanity.

Over nearly two decades, the terrorist entity Hamas acted as this exact father to the population of the Gaza Strip. 

The group constructed the most extensive, technologically sophisticated subterranean fortification network in human history—an estimated 500-kilometre labyrinth of reinforced concrete, ventilation systems, and communication lines carved directly beneath Gaza. This gargantuan engineering feat did not materialize out of thin air. It was funded by systematically executing a massive economic fraud against the global community, siphoning billions of dollars from international humanitarian aid channels, diverting raw construction materials explicitly earmarked for public schools, and hijacking energy grids intended to power hospitals.

But the true crime is not just the multi-billion-dollar embezzlement; it is the structural, premeditated exclusion of the population. Hamas built this sprawling underground sanctuary with a strict, absolute policy: militants go below; civilians stay above. In an interview broadcasted on Russia Today TV, prominent Hamas Political Bureau Member Mousa Abu Marzouk Confirmed that the extensive network of tunnels was built exclusively to protect Hamas fighters. When asked why the group refused to build bomb shelters for Gaza’s civilians, Abu Marzouk explicitly declared that protecting the civilian population is not Hamas’s responsibility, asserting instead that it is the job of the United Nations and Israel. When the predictable storms of war break, the terrorist leadership hides in the deep, leaving their own collective children locked outside in the open air to absorb the impact of the conflict.

This directly defies international guidelines, such as Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention and other humanitarian treaties, which outline safety standards for noncombatants. Hamas possessed an estimated 500-kilometre labyrinth of reinforced concrete, ventilation systems, and communication lines that were fully available to take necessary precautions to protect the civilian population, but they flatly refused to allow any civilians to enter.

 

Anatomy of the Theft: The Subterranean Financial Routes

The extraction of international capital by Hamas to fund this underground empire constitutes the most sophisticated civic asset-diversion scheme of the 21st century. Foreign currency and structural hardware did not enter the strip via a transparent defense budget; they were systematically weaponized through a dual-track strategy of humanitarian taxation and cross-border money laundering. Under the administrative mask of the Gaza Ministry of Finance, Hamas levied predatory, custom-designed tariffs on basic consumer necessities—including diesel fuel, cooking gas, cigarettes, and essential livestock—imported through the Kerem Shalom and Rafah commercial crossings. Financial assessments from investigative bodies like Shomrim Detail the Multi-Million Dollar Tax System managing commercial lines, where domestic taxes and truck-clearance fees directly skimmed millions of dollars from the cash flowing into the local economy, shifting capital out of the public sector to construct military assets. [1, 2, 3]

Concurrently, Hamas subverted international wire-transfer tracking mechanisms through the ancient hawala system and a global network of shell companies based in foreign jurisdictions like Turkey, Qatar, Sudan, and Algeria. Official enforcement documentation from the U.S. Department of the Treasury Sanctions Frameworkoutlines exactly how real estate developments, money remitters, and front-facing Islamic NGOs were broken down into fractional amounts, routed through intermediaries, and withdrawn as liquid cash in regional banking hubs to maintain a secret investment portfolio. [1, 2]

On the structural level, physical materials were intercepted under the direct authority of Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Under the guise of reconstructing public housing and civil services, thousands of tons of heavy-duty portland concrete, iron reinforcement rebar, and industrial electrical wiring imported by international actors were systematically hijacked at gunpoint or diverted through front companies. Dual-use item monitoring systems were entirely bypassed by mixing military manufacturing inside civilian warehouses. Rather than building municipal water filtration centers, repairing dilapidated electrical substations, or designing accessible municipal bomb shelters, these capital resources were buried underground to build a state-of-the-art combat fortress. [1, 2, 3]

 

The Architecture of a War Crime

This systemic abandonment is a flagrant violation of the entire architecture of global jurisprudence, defying International Humanitarian Law (IHL), United Nations mandates, and International Human Rights Law. Under the Geneva Conventions, the laws of warfare require a strict mandate for “Passive Precautions” as codified in Article 58 of Additional Protocol I, which demands that any governing or defending power must, to the maximum extent feasible, remove civilians under their control from the vicinity of military objectives and avoid placing military targets inside or near densely populated urban areas.

Hamas did the exact opposite. They deliberately threaded their military objectives through the living rooms, schools, and hospitals of Gaza. By locking civilians out of the protective tunnels while operating active combat positions directly beneath them, Hamas transformed an entire population into a permanent, involuntary human shield. This constitutes a severe war crime under Article 28 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which explicitly prohibits using the presence of civilians to render certain points or areas immune from military operations.

Furthermore, United Nations Law and structural human rights frameworks strictly forbid the weaponization of civic infrastructure. UN Security Council Resolutions have repeatedly codified that non-state actors and governing factions bear an unalterable responsibility to protect civilian lives under their administrative control. A criminal organization cannot absolve itself of its legal duties by claiming that public safety is the exclusive burden of external forces or international charities. Under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the right to life is non-derogable—it cannot be suspended, paused, or bartered away, even in times of war.

 

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Perverting the Laws of Distinction

The ultimate legal and moral perversion of this underground network is how it weaponizes the very laws meant to protect people. By keeping the tunnels exclusively military, Hamas ensures they remain lawful military objectives under International Humanitarian Law (IHL). As legal scholars analyze in the Lieber Institute West Point IHL Symposium on Targeting Tunnels, the legal status of underground structures depends strictly on their nature, purpose, and use. Had Hamas allowed civilians inside, these subterranean bunkers would have retained a protected civilian character, legally binding opposing forces to halt or strictly limit their strikes under the laws of proportionality.

Instead, the leadership chose a darker, criminal calculus: save the fighters, expose the children, and leverage the resulting surface casualties as a geopolitical weapon. Possessing roughly 500 kilometers of sophisticated underground fortifications yet intentionally locking the civilian population out in the middle of a conflict zone constitutes a severe macro-level exploitation of international frameworks. Experts compiling tactical reviews for the NATO StratCom Center of Excellence on Human Shielding document that this operational framework intentionally reverses the legal obligations of warfare, effectively forcing the civilian population to serve as a buffer layer on the surface to shield the military assets beneath them.

The British-Biafran Playbook: Extorting Global Empathy

This weaponization of suffering is the modern evolution of the darkest grifts in post-colonial history. 

Declassified British government archives have since unmasked the depth of this systemic betrayal during the 1967–1970 Nigerian Civil War.

 

As investigative reports from Declassified UK Reveal Regarding the Biafran War, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s administration covertly supplied massive military aid—including millions of rounds of ammunition, machine guns, and armoured vehicles—to the Nigerian federal dictatorship solely to protect British petroleum holdings and the massive commercial investments of Shell-BP. As a direct consequence of this collusion and a ruthless starvation blockade, up to two million Biafran civilians—predominantly children—perished. [1, 2, 3]

 As a direct consequence of British collusion and a ruthless starvation blockade, up to two million Biafran civilians—predominantly children— perished, equal to the entire population of Gaza. [1, 2, 3]

While Western powers engineered and financed the onslaught from behind closed doors, the starving children of Biafra became the transactional faces of a booming humanitarian industry. Images of skeletal babies with distended stomachs filled television screens, moving naive, kind-hearted citizens worldwide to empty their pockets into non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Yet, much of that aid was intercepted by the institutional machinery of international charities and warring factions to sustain the conflict.

The children died, corporate resource interests were secured, and the global grift sustained itself on televised agony. Hamas has perfected this exact playbook on a grander, more calculated scale.

The only difference is structural: the Nigerian blockade was a conventional external siege, whereas Hamas has built the siege directly into the geography of Gaza. [1, 2]

The Hypocrisy of [British ] Post-Colonial Accusations

There is a profound geopolitical hypocrisy when contemporary Western establishments, particularly British political factions and commentators, label Israel’s defensive actions as “genocidal.”

This rhetoric completely untethers itself from historical reality. 

As detailed in the public documentation hosted by the Daily Maverick Investigative Archive, the very state institutions now lecturing the world on human rights are the ones that engineered the Biafran tragedy to safeguard corporate oil profits.

When Great Britain actively armed a dictatorship and allowed millions of children to starve to preserve its crude supply, it was not called out by its own media as an agent of mass slaughter; it was protected under the guise of statecraft. 

Today, that same historical amnesia is weaponized against Israel.

The international community readily ignores the documented, systematic crimes of Hamas—a terrorist organization that operates an underground empire while holding its own children hostage on the surface—to project its historical guilt onto the Jewish state. [1, 2]

Breaking the Cycle of the Paradox

The international community must stop playing its assigned role in this cycle of extortion.

The “pro-Palestinian” activists marching in Western capitals who ignore this subterranean asymmetry are not defending the oppressed; they are enabling the deadbolt. They are providing diplomatic cover for a ruling military class that enjoys total underground immunity while the most vulnerable are used as a buffer layer on the surface.

We must strip away the clinical, sanitised vocabulary of geopolitics. 

What is happening in Gaza is a crime of domestic betrayal on a civilizational scale. Legal and media analysts at organizations like the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) define this precise strategy as “civilian casualty harvesting”—the systematic, intentional exploitation of surface-level civilian suffering and deaths as a deliberate military and political resource to shape Western public perception.

Those who build empires underground while locking their citizens out in the crossfire are not liberators, protectors, or statesmen. They are criminal cowards hiding in a cellar, using the bodies of their locked-out children to extort a world that refuses to look at the deadbolt on the door. [1]

 

Central Repository for Legal Reference Texts

Primary legal treaties, customary rules, and official legal commentaries regarding human shielding (Article 28, GCIV) and passive precautions (Article 58, API) are sourced directly from the centralized repository maintained by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Full legal texts are publicly accessible via the centralized ICRC International Humanitarian Law Databases Hub. [1]

Within this single primary platform, one can access the two specific pillars of law referenced:

• The Codified Treaty Database: For the exact text of Article 28 of the Fourth Geneva Convention and Article 58 of Additional Protocol I, look directly at the ICRC Treaties, States Parties and Commentaries Collection. [1]
• The Customary Law Database: For the universal legal rules binding non-state armed groups and states alike (including the absolute prohibition on human shielding), navigate directly to the ICRC Customary IHL Study and Rules Database.

Reference Appendix: Article 58 of Additional Protocol I (1977)

From the official ICRC Customary International Humanitarian Law Project, the exact text of Article 58 – Precautions against the effects of attacks reads as follows: [1]

“The Parties to the conflict shall, to the maximum extent feasible:”

(a) without prejudice to Article 49 of the Fourth Convention, endeavour to remove the civilian population, individual civilians and civilian objects under their control from the vicinity of military objectives;
(b) avoid locating military objectives within or near densely populated areas;
(c) take the other necessary precautions to protect the civilian population, individual civilians and civilian objects under their control against the dangers resulting from military operations.” [1]  [500 miles of protective bunkers : under ground cement tunnels ]

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