An intelligence briefing on Hamas...

This is from Major-General Amos Yadlin...

Yadlin also demonstrated, using a number of intelligence videos, that Hamas continued to use civilians and civilian infrastructure as a shield. For example, intelligence photographs showed a booby-trapped school, with explosives in every classroom.

In a similar indictment of Hamas' egregious treatment of Gaza civilians, Cabinet Secretary Oved Yehezkel made mention of Hamas' looting of humanitarian trucks, saying that the aid was being stored in Hamas warehouses and distributed selectively only to Hamas members.

Shin Bet Chief Yuval Diskin noted both of these phenomena. But, he said, Gaza citizens may have begun to protest. "There is clear evidence of Gaza residents refusing to have rocket launchers placed next to their homes.