A senior intelligence analyst (who shall remain anonymous) just sent me the above video. It appears to show Palestinian militants intentionally dragging Arab children into the line of fire, forcing them to become “martyrs” — all to garner international sympathy for the Arab cause and censure for Israel: War is Deceit.
Regarding sympathy and deceit, al-Qaeda, while discussing the important role of deception in the jihad, quote the classical exegete Ibn Hajar, who wrote: “Revealing one thing while secretly planning another is the essence of deception; moreover, the hadith incites [Muslims] to take great caution in war, while [publicly] lamenting and mourning in order to dupe the infidels” (from The Al Qaeda Reader, 142).