I have not seen this in any video feed or credible accounts, but it is a trope that is not going away. And criticizing the military wing of Hamas for living beside the people of Gaza when THAT IS THE ONLY PLACE THEY ARE ALLOWED TO LIVE is just a manipulation of an obvious truism. Any argument to the effect that Hamas militants are "using human shields" or "hiding behind women and children" is not a rational observation or argument to justify the absolute carnage and misery we have witnessed in Gaza for 7 months and counting. Insurgents typically live among their people. This is no surprise and has been forever so. American colonial insurgents were living among their people and constituted only 1/3 of a population that consisted of royalists and those uncommitted to the cause. Macabeeans fought and lived among their people. Some in the Warsaw uprising referred to it as an intifada and they lived among their people in conditions akin to Gaza. This is not to justify the hate crimes of October 7, but to point out the poverty of the "hiding behind women and children" trope. The last election in Gaza was 2005. At least half the Gaza population wasn't even alive then and I am sure that no Gazan supports being used as a "shield" for anyone. So why kill them in such numbers and turn Gaza into a hellscape? I cannot improve on the many observations here that "this didn't start on October 7." Thank God that Israel and its patrons are losing the narrative, in fact may have already lost it. It is a terrible realization that I do and must live in a world that includes Mr. Karp. May his tribe decrease.