This is who they are, this is what they do...

... and it's what they've always done:

The IDF's humanitarian efforts are exploited by Hamas to increase civilian casualties... Per Alan Dershowitz, this is par for the course: In a recent incident related to me by the former head of the Israeli air force, Israeli intelligence learned that a family's house in Gaza was being used to manufacture rockets. The Israeli military gave the residents 30 minutes to leave. Instead, the owner called Hamas, which sent mothers carrying babies to the house.

Again: the real beauty is how Hamas exploits Israel's "knock on the roof" warnings - meant to minimize Palestinian civilian casualties - to move their human shields around. After the jump, a video of Hamas soldiers literally hiding behind children while taking potshots at Israeli soldiers.

Meryl has one more video on the subject, blogged in the context of that UN school that got hit after Hamas soldiers fired mortars from it. Or "didn't fire mortars from it" if you believe UNRWA's spokesman, who claims that Israel admitted to him and not to anyone else that the UN's pathetic attempt to deny Hamas's use of UN facilities was true. Seems credible.

References:
* Reminder: Hamas Uses Israeli Humanitarian Gestures To Rack Up Mass Civilian Casualties [MR]
* One Jerusalem Conference Call - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu On Hamas's "Double War Crime" [Videos] [MR]
* Hamas using children as human shield [Yourish]
* UN spokesman: IDF admitted there were no mortars fired from shelled UN school [Hot Air]
* UNRWA '99.9% sure' Gaza school was not being used by Hamas to fire mortars [JPost]

Previously:
* Like Hezbollah, Hamas Uses Children As Human Shields
* Hamas Prepares 15,000 Soldiers, Civilian Human Shields For Full Confrontation With Israel
* Video: Hamas Brags About Using Women And Children As Human Shields