Hamas deliberately embeds military assets among civilians, making collateral harm Israel's legal burden to bear, not Israel's. The Oct. 7 attacks — murder, rape, mass hostage-taking — were intentional war crimes under Nuremberg-level standards, and Hamas has since re-established iron control over Gaza using checkpoints and tunnels while hiding behind 2 million human shields. Israel's counter-terrorism campaign is legally justified self-defense against an exterminatory foe.