Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children..
-President Eisenhower in his ‘chance for peace’ speech
It is also a major tactic by Hamas to sway public opinion by people that know no better. One that has been admitted too for decades. Hamas struck first with a terrible atrocity, they knew what would happen yet they did it anyway. It is on their hands that the blood drips from.
Calling people human shields because they are in their own home as a pretense to bomb them is a war crime.
If a terrorist holds a baby, do you shoot the baby? Well, Israel would be ready to shoot a handful just to kill one person slightly affiliated with Hamas*.
Here is an article where IDF shot a woman and child with any kind of warning of military activity in the area. Worse yet there were no Hamas belligerentsin the area.