All military criminals love this excuse. Russia says this all the time, together with “it was self-inflicted”.

They conveniently placed one person from Hamas to each house in Gaza. Right?

From the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence: https://stratcomcoe.org/cuploads/pfiles/hamas_human_shields....

The criminal was inside a hospital, so police HAD to explode the entire hospital. At least the criminal is dead!