Yes, that’s exactly the Hamas terrorist play book: Strike Israel in an unjustified and unprovoked vicious terrorist attack—knowing full well that Israel will retaliate—and then use/abuse the innocent Palestinian people as props in a terrorist propaganda campaign for world support and to stoke anti-Israel sentiment.
And the pathetic global news media buys into it and plays along like suckers (or “useful idiots” as Putin would say).
Thus, if the Hamas terrorists want to play the victim card, that’s their prerogative. But Israel and the Jewish community don’t play the victim card. We don’t make excuses, we don’t blame others for problems, and we always take personal accountability and responsibility. The world needs to wake up to this reality, rather than continue to be brainwashed by Iran-sported Hamas terrorist propaganda—with the help of a naïve global news media which gets suckered time and again by the terrorists.