Shields

One example is the California law that prohibits schools from automatically notifying families about student gender-identity issues and shields teachers from retaliation for supporting transgender student rights.

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

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.

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

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