Sinwar, a direct quote “decided to turn that which is most dear to us — the bodies of our women and children — into a dam blocking the collapse in Arab reality.”
Mushir Al-Masri, a direct quote "the citizens will continue defending their pride and houses and will continue to serve as human shields until the enemy will withdraw
Most recently Hamas
gave orders to not flee the combat zones or risk death by their hand, and people think they don't use human shields? They broadcast it from the mosques to the entire community, this isn't some sort of conspiracy guys.
Then Hamas spent $0.00 on bomb shelters for civilians (out of billions), and people think they don't want to maximize the civilian deaths on their sides?
Dead Palestinian civilians and the amplification of said deaths are the entire play for them outside of their military objectives. NATO and the west call it Lawfare, you can read a lot of papers on it. I was just reading this one.
https://www.jwc.nato.int/images/stor...fare_Moore.pdf
It gets them:
1) Funding (in the billions)
2) anger towards the murderous Jews (even globally)
3) penetration deep into the left where the killing of civilians is THE issue
4) huge strategic advantages, like countries who will potentially not do arms or trade deals with Israel due to civilian deaths
5) Impact on the Israeli economy from more BDS
Remember these are the people outfitting child-size suicide vests now. And their religious beliefs are that all the dead are martyrs and there is no sacrifice too great for this cause. How we view death and how they view death aren't even in the same realm.
I have absolutely no problem saying too many civilians died, and there were spots where certain adjustments could have saved lives. But don't be naive on what Hamas and radical Islam is and what it will do to achieve its goals.