No Way To Avoid Fighting Hamas and No Other Way To Fight

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No Way To Avoid Fighting Hamas and No Other Way To Fight

“Hamas is deliberately hiding behind civilians,” says Israel. But people look at the horrible pictures coming from Gaza, and their heart refuses to be convinced – though nobody can seriously contest the fact that Hamas is operating among civilians. Why are civilian casualties so heavy?

There is simply no such thing as a Hamas military unit or target that can be attacked outside the centers of civilian population.

Thousands of rockets have been fired on Israel, indiscriminately targeting population centers, since the Oct. 7 massacres; many thousands, increasingly powerful and long-range ones, had been fired since Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, during the periodic rounds of fighting and between them, provoking those rounds.

If Hamas wanted to kill Israeli civilians while limiting the damage to Palestinian ones, they could have launched these rockets only from the less-populated rural areas outside the city of Gaza and the other main populated localities