"UNHRC Testimony by Major-General Mike Jones on the UN Gaza Report:
"Through the manipulation of public media access and innovative use of social media, we believe that Hamas exploited civilian causalities that it may not have caused but was certainly responsible for.
And this is an important distinction that I think we should make. I think it is very important to distinguish between what the cause of collateral damage is, and where the responsibility lies for the collateral damage.
So, for example, if as a military commander I locate my launch sites for artillery or rocket fire in a protected area -- knowing that the response of any force that is being attacked by that rocket fire is going to fire counter-battery fire -- then it may be that the counter-fire caused the damage, but the responsibility for the damage lies with the people who located it there in the first place.
That, I think, is a very important distinction. And what we saw was that, for their positioning, knowing that there would be civilian casualties and collateral damage, that was done in order to gain international sympathy... Hamas exploited the conflict to engage in a new type of conflict: it's commonly called lawfare."

Major-General Mike Jones (Ret.) at UNHRC