the question should be, why the so-called Israel hurt civilians always? not only in Gaza... ummmmmmmmmmmmm................... in the recent wars they say: "the terrorists" hide behind civilians, which been proven a pure lie by independent humanitarian organizations, you can check previous threads for proofs. also, the OP here says because the people accepted Hamas, as if Hamas is not from the people, and it was something fall from the moon, and as if the people were not suffering since very long before Hamas been established, mainly to resist occupation... and so many excuses and lies and propaganda, to make it look like: "we did not want to kill them, they forced us" but the truth, as been said by these Israeli terrorists themselves, take this example: source: The Nazi Rabbi (his son isn't kidding either)