Hamas is so cynical?

Don't kill

And let me just say that people who have nothing to lose have nothing to lose.

They could promise not to conduct terrorist attacks against Israel.

After all - there was a time when Palestinians worked freely in Israel. Before the bombings started.

So innocent, blameless...OK. But we will see what we will see.

Rockets were flying towards Israel within hours. Hamas does not want peace.

So innocent, so blameless

Wars are never pretty.

Reports indicate about 60 dead and "thousands" wounded.

Do you think that the IDF are just really bad shots?

Also - If Hamas' goal is to get some casualties that they can sell to the rest of the world as Israeli excesses... what do you imagine the options are? "Protesters" rush the fence and you lob teargas or play loud music at them. Then what? They go away?

Israel did something like this a decade or so ago. They would fly jets over the area at supersonic speeds.

Hamas accused them of using "sound bombs" and that they caused civilian women to miscarry.

But again... if there are dozens killed but thousands injured... it's hard to claim that there isn't quite a bit of non-lethal defense being used. They certainly aren't firing indiscriminately into crowds of innocent protesters.

as a testament to their restraint

Can you give ANY examples of it from the Hamas side that we can use for comparison? When some throw rocks or Molotov cocktails instead of grenades is it because they don't want to really hurt anyone? Or just that they don't have enough grenades?

They are the guilty ones and Israel is completely blameless, innocent of anything.

It's pretty silly to try to hint that "if only Israel could restrain themselves" things would be different.

There have been uncounted teargas rounds and other non-lethal methods used. It obviously doesn't keep the violence from occurring. It's clear that only one side WANTS people to die. "Restraint" has no effect at all in an environment where one side needs dead bodies to show up on the news and will escalate until it gets some (or outright manufacture them themselves).

EOM

... if it ever happens

Get yourself killed in front of a camera.
It only works one time.
I guess you better hope it goes viral...

reap your reward of 77 virgins when you enter Paradise, while your family assuages their grief at your death with the honor of having a genuine martyr in the family, along with the $3,500 monthly stipend Hamas pays each such lucky family.

I've seen plenty of videos where the "body" rises from the dead once off camera.

Hamas claims 50 of its members died in Monday's clashes in Gaza
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/middleeast/hamas-members-gaza-deaths/index.html

This was big news for about 48 hours. Now silence.
Once news broke that the Israelis weren't slaughtering innocent protesters, the media lost interest in this story.
Now go figure.

They were the ones the armed Hamas terrorists used as human shields to hide behind when they attacked.

Elementary, my dear Moriarty!

the reporters who were targeted?

Then again, Hamas has been repeatedly caught disguising terrorists as medics, and it's not unusual for reporters embedded in military units to get caught in the crossfire.

If Hamas admits that 85% of them were Hamas... on what basis do you claim "1,000-plus shot" and (more importantly) on what basis (assuming 1000+ were shot) would you believe that the proportion of that number who were Hamas was not similarly high?

Are Hamas members just more fragile than other Gaza residents and thus more likely to perish when shot?

to defensively break their charge, not shooting wantonly or targeting individuals to kill unless they saw someone armed and firing at them.

It's no surprise that the armed terrorists hiding in the crowd were all Hamas or Islamic Jihad.

They're obviously not "shooting wantonly", but I don't think these are warning shots in front of the crowd that just might hit some of them in the legs. I think they're aimed shots that are intended to disable rather than kill.

Obviously, the stats come from Hamas - and are thus suspect. But to have thousands injured and only dozens killed means that the IDF is going out of their way to avoid fatalities. To have such a high percentage of those few killed admitted as terrorists seriously harms Hamas' case.