The Pali women and children are Hamas hostages much as the Israeli and US are.
In fact, the argument can and has been made that they are not.
There are 3.5 million Gazan Arabs in Gaza.
There are 35 thousand Hamas terrorists.
Of those 35 thousand, over half of them are hiding like the cowards they are in the tunnels.
The Gazan Arabs need only arm themselves with knives and hell, even rocks -- plenty of them laying around at the moment --and overpower the terrorists. They then need only seal off the tunnels. They know exactly where EACH AND EVERY tunnel entrance is because for the past 17 years, they have housed rockets and small arms in their living rooms, brought to them from these tunnels.
Once the tunnels are sealed, they simply send envoys to the IDF troops -- they are pretty much everywhere right now -- and tell them you have Hamas trapped in the tunnels and that the troops need only man the entrances.
They could then point out every Hamas hiding in the rubble to the Jews.
The Israelis need only wait a week or even less, and if no more rockets are fired into Israel, then they'll know they were not lied to and the bombing and killing of the Gazan Arabs can stop.
Have they done any of that?
Have they even raised a single word of condemnation against Hamas?
No?