Hamas using Palestinians as human shields: "We desire death as you desire life"

Hamas member of Palestinian Parliament (Legislative Council) Fathi Hammad: "For the Palestinian people, death became an industry at which women excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly, [Palestinians] created a human shield of women, children, the elderly and the Jihad fighters against the Zionist bombing machine, as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: We desire death, as you desire life."

[Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), February 29, 2008]