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Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/civilians-as-a-human-shield/
Hamas' Tactics Use Civilians as a Human Shield
(Israel Hayom) Oded Granot - Meticulous planning went into organizing the March of Return along the Gaza border fence. About 250 buses brought 30,000 people to the border area. Some are relatives of Hamas operatives and public officials. Not everyone participated willingly. Some were forced. This was no peaceful, popular demonstration, as the organizers promised it would be. Attempts were made to vandalize the border fence, and the demonstrators were used as cover for an attempted attack against IDF forces. In this sense, Hamas' tactics didn't differ much from the 2014 Gaza war, in which it located terrorist headquarters and weapons caches in civilian homes and civilians were forced to serve as human shields.