Steve, it is a fact that they fight from civilian areas so that retaliation kills civilians, so they use human shields.

Fact my arse. Keith, this is received unwisdom from Islamophobic sources, unprovable by you or by any of your fellow-traveller racists. Churning it out machine-like by knee-jerk does not make it true. Do look at a bloody map. Gaza is a titchy-tiny territory (you could walk across it in an hour and a half) containing nearly two million people. It is one of the most crowded places on earth. Turn the bloody record over. They say the first casualty of war is truth. A big part of that casualty is the automatic and tedious claim, used in every modern conflict, especially against Muslims (easy meat, eh, Keith?), that your enemy is using human shields. Do have a think, and do grow up. You're bloody old enough.