HAMAS - anything to gain their ends, including allowing civilians to be killed.

Since these July, 2014 Hamas attacks on Israel, there have been many civilian deaths in Gaza. Hamas, like other Muslim terrorists, don't care about anything other than their political ends. If they have to fire into Israel from civilian areas to provoke Israeli firing back into the areas where Hamas is firing from, they will do so. They can now proclaim Israel is attacking civilians, schools, hospitals, et al.

Are we understanding this?

I note MM in America is portraying Israel as the bad guy here. This is to be expected as it fits the agenda of the current occupant of the White House and his minions.