Baby Boomers

Or in this case, cannon fodder for media consumption;

This is a win-win strategy for Hamas and IJ. If Israeli soldiers are able to recognize that children are on the battlefield and refrain from firing, terrorists are able to retrieve their equipment and use it to kill Israelis another day. If the IDF destroys the launchers, Israel suffers the public relations fallout from being accused of killing children. I'm not sure, in the minds of the members of Hamas, which is better: retrieving the rocket launchers, or seeing Israel globally condemned for child-murder. I'm going to guess the latter.