On Saturday, I posted an item detailing how, after Palestinian terrorist attacks launched from Gaza prompted an Israeli response, the mainstream media dutifully focused on the killing of Palestinian civilians, not on the Palestinian provocation.

Today, Jihad Watch (excerpting a World Net Daily report) details an account from an IDF commander at the front:

Amid Israel’s ongoing ground operation in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas terrorist group has been drawing Israeli forces into populated civilian areas, shooting at Jewish fighters from occupied civilian homes while women and children were inside, an Israel Defense Forces commander fighting in Gaza told WND.

“Hamas terror operatives shooting at us took up positions inside civilian homes while the civilians were still inside,” said the commander, who was speaking from the outskirts of an IDF operation in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip.

“The aim is to draw us into killing civilians to bring about international pressure to end our operation,” the commander said.