In quite a few of these families, a single, fighting-age member whose last name is not the same as the family's was killed along with the families themselves.
B'Tselem noticed that in several cases, the odd-named person was in fact a terrorist.
For example, we have noted that in the Ziyadah family house - the family that was related to the Dutch "righteous gentile" who returned his award to Israel - they had a "guest" named Mohammed Mahmoud al-Maqadma who was, in fact, a terrorist.
This is a pattern.
25 members of the Abu Jame' family were killed - along with a single terrorist named Ahmad Sahmoud, according to B'Tselem.
8 members of the Abu Nijem family were hosting 2 terrorists, Daniel Mansur, 44 and Abd a-Nasser al-'Ajuri, 32.
3 members of al Al Masri family were killed while hosting terrorist Amjad Hamdan, 24.
So I wondered if any other of the anomalous names that B'Tselem didn't categorize as "military branch operatives" were indeed terrorists. Sure enough, I found one.
6 members of the Al-Bakri family were killed on August 4, along with 32-year old Ibrahim al-Misharawi.
Misharawi was an Islamic Jihad terrorist.
Of course, PCHR identified him as a civilian.
(Is he related to the BBC reporter Jihad Mishrawi?)
This means we have identified 5 families in Gaza, 42 people, who happened to be hosting non-family terrorists in their homes when they were killed. (I am not counting the families who had terrorist members.)
This cannot be a coincidence. It seems quite likely that the terrorists were using these homes as command and control centers, major weapons caches or other military targets, either with the families' permission or without. What is clear is that these homes were not randomly targeted.
Either way, the terrorists were using these families as human shields, and their deaths are squarely the fault of Hamas and the other terror groups the "guests" belonged to.
This is besides the terrorists who used their own families as human shields for their own activities.
It would be interesting to know if the IDF warned these families to leave their houses - and if their "guests" physically prevented them from doing so.
The more that the Gaza deaths are researched, the more depraved the terrorists are proven to be. Too bad that "human rights" groups aren't interested in digging up the truth about these clear examples of war crimes done by Hamas and their partners.