It’s worth adding that Islamic Jihad and Hamas follow a rigorous anti-child policy not just for Israeli kids, but for Palestinian ones as well. These terror groups often send children out to retrieve rocket launchers after their missiles have been fired, in the moments after the IDF has detected the launch and is most likely to destroy the launcher. These are, in other words, suicide missions, and in recent weeks several Palestinian kids have been killed in exactly this way. The obvious payoff for Hamas and IJ is in media coverage, as Israel is blamed by cynical western journalists for killing Palestinian children. If we lived in a less morally demented world, the only people who would be condemned for killing Palestinian children would be the brave “resistance” fighters who intentionally put them in harm’s way.