And if that criminal had been blowing up people's houses?
Anyway, a more accurate analogy would be the criminal hiding behind his own relatives in their houses. You think these civilian Palestinians and school teachers get to tell Hamas whether or not their homes and schools can be used to launch attacks?
Hamas deliberately hides behind women and children, waits for them to be hit by attacks aimed at them, then holds up their bodies as evidence of Israel's brutality.
And the useful idiots gobble it up.