Enough to see the author blathering on about nothing that didn’t already have its own page on Wikipedia, enough to see the big reveal was something anyone with a web browser could have accessed.

The gripe is that sometimes Israeli police and military shoot their own people as they are being carried away by Hamas as hostages? It’s because, other than using human shields and not wearing uniforms, another of Hamas’s illegal tactics is taking hostages, military or civilian, to bargain with. I’m not an Israeli soldier but if I were I think I’d prefer the bullet, too, rather than let myself be used by terrorists as a bargaining chip, as one of their weapons.

Israel’s strategy is to deny Hamas any strategic advantage. But more importantly, and perhaps this is the part that you are missing: if a hostage gets shot during a hostage taking, the hostage taker is still legally and morally culpable for the death, regardless of who shot the hostage; it’s based on the reckless disregard for that type of harm, and the foreseeability that such harm would result.