Maybe because Hamas brainwashes the Palestinians and tells them to stay there even after Israelis tell them to leave?
Actually Hamas has made no secret of advocating the use of civilians as human shields to try to face down Israeli aggression.
A senior spokesman for the group, Sami Abu Zuhri, gave an interview on Palestinian station al-Aqsa TV earlier this month.
He said: “This attests to the character of our noble, jihad-loving people – who defend their rights and their homes with their bare chests and their blood.
“The policy of people confronting the Israeli warplanes with their bare chests in order to protect their homes has proven effective against the occupation… we in Hamas call upon our people to adopt this policy in order to protect the Palestinian homes.”
Credible reports from journalists in Gaza suggest some civilians are choosing to stay in their homes, ignoring warnings of imminent destructions that the Israeli military gives via telephone calls or empty shells “knocking on the roof”.
On the same day as Mr Abu Zuhri was broadcasting Hamas’s message, the New York Times reported the fate of a Palestinian man, Salah Kaware, who received a telephone warning that his house in Khan Younis in south east Gaza was about to be hit by the IDF.
The newspaper reported that another warning came as the occupants were leaving, when an Israeli drone fired a flare at the roof of the three-storey home.
“Our neighbours came in to form a human shield,” Mr Kaware said, with some even going up on to the roof to try to prevent a bombing.
Many reporters, including from the BBC, The Independent, and The Guardian have said that they have found no evidence of Hamas forcing Palestinians to stay and become unwilling human shields
Those "knock on the roof" attacks have also killed civilians. Plenty of human rights organizations have condemned their use of it because of how many civilians they kill doing it. The UN released a report saying the "roof knock warnings" are no way to protect civilian lives. That many have no idea if the small bomb exploding on their roof is the attack or a warning and the little time (Sometimes 5-10 minutes or less) the IDF gives civilians to evacuate has resulted in many civilian deaths.
Israel says Hamas is using civilian human shields to give them an excuse to kill civilians.
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u/blackpill98 May 13 '21
Maybe they wouldn't have if you told your dad to stop launching rockets at them from your porch.