Hamas' website recently bragged about targeting a school bus with an anti-tank missile:
Gaza-Ezzedeen Al Qassam Briades (E.Q.B) the military wing of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas declared in a military communiqué released on Thursday April 7, 201l the full responsibility for the operation of targeting Israeli bus traveling in the nearby Israeli settlement of Kfar Sa’ad east of Gaza Strip.
The operation left two Israeli settlers injured, one of them was in a critical condition and evacuated by the Israeli medical crews to Soroka hospital.
http://qassam.ps/news-4391-Al_Qassam_de ... ation.html
But the quote in the title is taken from Hamas' English language spokesman, found on their English language website from 2007:
There is no justification for targeting civilians. It is against Islam to deliberately kill unarmed civilians during jihad. In addition, our doctrine is to target the enemies army, security services, and support apparatus. But it is known that Zionist society is a militarized society. Service in the army is mandatory; and reserve duty continues past the age of 40. Our determined stance is that unarmed persons on both sides of the conflict should be left out of the fighting.
http://www.almoltaqa.ps/english/showthread.php?t=7747
Credit to ElderofZiyon for ripping off his thread:
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... ation.html
But really, Westerners should believe what Hamas English spokespersons tell us because they say so.