You're Hamas. You're pretty psyched about getting Palestinian women and children killed. Problem: Israel's new stock of small-diameter smart bombs and its ongoing humanitarian efforts have ensured that well below 15% of the casualties have been women and children. Of course you can have photojournalists make it up but eventually one of them is going to get caught. Solution: have Palestinian women and children kill themselves:

Following are excerpts from footage of Hamas female martyrdom-seekers in Gaza, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on December 30, 2008. Masked woman clad in explosives belt: "I, the martyrdom-seeker Umm Suheib, have dedicated myself for the sake of Allah, and for the sake of redeeming my family, from which I have lost eight martyrs so far. I swear by Allah that I will turn my body parts into a fire that will burn the occupation soldiers, if they move towards my house... There are thousands of martyrdom-seeking women like me,... Second masked woman holding a rifle: "... We, the women, will set out. We are the granddaughters of Yassin, Al-Bana, and Al-Qassam. We are all the daughters of Palestine, the daughters of steadfast Gaza. We will set out, booby-trapped. From every home, a bomb will set out... We will blow ourselves up among those traitors, those apes and pigs."

It's a near-certainty that in the fog of urban warfare - where Israeli soldiers will be going house to house under the strictest rules of engagement - at least a few of these women will get close enough to blow themselves up. The media coverage of their "bitter acts" - exploiting Israeli ethics to kill Israeli soldiers - will be filled with hand-wringing about how their family members had previously been engaged by the IDF. And by "family members" let's be clean in advance that they mean "brainwashed children":

More on Hamas's cradle-to-early-grave brainwashing - from religious indoctrination to Holocaust denial - here. It's only a matter of time before Iran manages to do something with their own vaunted 20,000 student suicide bomber army. Expected headlines: "Iranian civilian killed in Israel."

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