An Israeli soldier keeps guard next to an entrance to what the Israeli military say is a cross-border attack tunnel dug from Gaza to Israel, on the Israeli side of the Gaza Strip border near Kissufim, Jan. 18, 2018. Photo: REUTERS/Jack Guez/Pool

“Children, the drunk, and the angry tell the truth,” so the adage goes.

One young Palestinian girl from Gaza certainly did that when she stressed that members of the Hamas terror organization are hiding in tunnels, while they use civilians like her as human shields above ground:

Al-Mayadeen TV reporter: “What do you say to the resistance? They say that you are resistance fighters. You are children and [the Israelis] are killing you, and they say to the world that you are resistance fighters. What do you say to the Palestinian resistance?”

Girl: “They put the Arabs in danger. They are underneath, in tunnels, and we — the victims who are dying — are civilians.”

Posted text: “A reporter of the [Al-Mayadeen TV] channel that is affiliated with Hezbollah and Iran attempts to get a response in favor of Hamas out of the girl, but she told him the truth.” [emphasis added]

[“Yalla The Good News,” X (Twitter) account, Nov. 11, 2023]

Another Gazan civilian expressed similar anger at Hamas and the other terror organizations in the Gaza Strip who “hide among the people”:

Palestinian man: “Regarding the resistance hiding among the people — why is it hiding among the people? Let it go hide in Hell.”

The reporter abruptly ends the interview and moves away from the Palestinian man:

Al-Jazeera TV reporter: “These are the testimonies from the civilians.”

[Karim Gahin, X (Twitter) account, Nov. 14, 2023]

The previous video shows a live broadcast from Al Jazeera TV, in which an Al Jazeera TV reporter is interviewing a Palestinian man in a hospital in the Gaza Strip. When the reporter heard the man criticizing “the resistance” — a Palestinian euphemism for terror and the terror organizations — he moved away from the man, who tried to follow him to continue the interview. Apparently, his message is not one Al Jazeera wants to broadcast.

Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) has exposed that Hamas, as a matter of policy, uses civilians as human shields — in this war and in previous ones.

Even Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement has criticized Hamas for endangering civilians by storing live ammunition in popular markets.

Truth comes from “the horse’s mouth” — an authoritative source — and indeed, none other than Hamas terror leader Yahya Al-Sinwar admitted in 2021 that Hamas does indeed place “military and security bases among civilian residents,” including in “multi-story buildings and in residential buildings and the like”:

Hamas terror leader Yahya Al-Sinwar: “Regarding the [Hamas] military and security bases that are located among civilian residents [in the Gaza Strip], this was a serious problem in the previous stages, and we and the resistance factions made efforts to carry out an operation of gradual movement and transfer of a large number of these bases from among the civilian residents, and we succeeded in carrying out a large portion of it.

But there is still a portion that needs to be transferred, and Allah willing this operation will continue … We decided to transfer a large portion of the bases, especially those that are in multistory buildings and in residential buildings and the like.” [emphasis added]

[Al-Jazeera Live, YouTube channel, June 6, 2021]