Hamas has been using both women and chldren as human shields for years, it is a widely know fact. Hamas does that with the thinking that Israel will refrain from hitting those targets because of the percived consequenes. (using human shields is a war crime as pe the Geeva convention) What makes it worse is that the people of gaza are actively complicit with this behavior. Hamas/Gaza is no match for Israel but how they could they possibly defeat such an enemy using these tactics? Well now the gloves are off and Hamas can no longer use human shields. Right now Hamas is almost oblterated at this point.