If putting children on the front line was an effective military strategy because the other side couldn't shoot them then everybody would be using this tactic.
My fellow countrymen use exactly this tactic and it is effective. In the schools closest to me, soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are stationed. When a missile arrives there, they make a picture for the West that Russia is shelling civilian infrastructure...
If our troops had fought without being covered by civilians, Russia would have won victory long ago! You probably have a similar situation!
But Russia is not fighting against Ukraine, but against the Nazi government that seized power here. Well, those who took up arms to protect the current regime have natural consequences. Local children with Bandera firmware and Russophobia will just as easily be re-educated by the information field, and not exterminated as a potential threat!
This is very interesting information.
You say the tactic is effective; but clearly not in a military sense - Russia still fired the missile at the UAF troops.
A propaganda picture for gullible Westerners may have been valuable early in the war but has very little value now.
I agree that Russia is fighting the government of Ukraine rather than the people. The government probably doesn't have even majority support of the people for this war? This is why it is so hard to recruit.
Russia may well see the possibility of erasing the "Bandera firmware and Russophobia". This is because Ukraine and Russian are very similar peoples, almost brothers and "Bandera firmware" is not that deeply embedded.
However none of this is the case in Gaza.
Hamas and it evil genocidal ideology is extremely popular in Gaza with 71% supporting the Oct 7 genocidal attack.
Hamas genocidal ideology is deeply rooted in Islam. It is not the only interpretation of the Koran but is certainly a valid and deeply rooted one.
Islam has different attitudes to children and childhood than Christianity or Judaism.
Gazan 'civilians' are not reluctant participants in a war started by its government's policies.
They are deeply and voluntarily embedded in the military infrastructure of Hamas.
Its the difference between just posting troops in a school and the entire school being a military installation with weapons stored everywhere, tunnel entrances in the school, rockets fired from the playground with the participation of the children and teachers and the children being taught to fight and use weapons and hate from age 5.
Its not a matter of degree - its fundamental. There are no real civilians in Gaza.