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Source: http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/battling-dark-emotion-at-the-gaza-border/
Report from the Gaza War: Palestinians Fired from Behind Children
(Times of Israel) Shmuley Boteach - At an IDF base near the Gaza border, a Golani Brigade commander said: "We saw Hamas fighters moving...holding 5-year-old children in front of them as human shields. I am a father. I cannot even begin to understand the mentality of a fighter who would use a child to protect himself." He recounted how his soldiers in Gaza had spotted a Hamas rocket about to be launched. He was about to order the soldiers to open fire when suddenly children started walking toward the soldiers right in front of the rocket. "My soldiers are eighteen and they're making life and death decisions, trying to decide, 'Should I allow children in Sderot to be bombed today by not firing on the rocket? But if I fire I may hurt a Palestinian child.'" He told his soldiers to stand down. The rocket was fired.