Hamas is getting just what it wanted.

On Tuesday, IDF tanks entered the heart of Rafah, inevitably causing more Palestinian civilian casualties and deaths. 

Savagely, Martyrs Inc. is open for business in Rafah — exactly as intended by Hamas and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sponsors in Tehran and overlords in Moscow.

Mohammed Deif and Yahya Sinwar have never sought to govern Gaza.

Rather, they have plotted to turn it into a land of futile martyrdom in their jihad to destroy Israel.

The IDF’s Sunday attack, which killed 45 civilians, underscored just how drenched in innocent blood the road to Rafah has become at the hands of Deif and Sinwar.

The images were horrifying.

Flames from hell, burned bodies, dead children — all proudly served up on social media by Hamas.

Hamas would not have it any other way.

In its demented world, Palestinian men, women and children are simply a means to an end.

Ismail Haniyeh, the political chief of Hamas, told us as much last October. 

Safely tucked away in a luxury hotel 1,100 miles away from Rafah in Qatar, Haniyeh perversely reveled in the loss of Palestinian civilians as Israel began to strike back against Hamas targets in Northern Gaza, arguing that “we need this blood [of the children, women and elderly] so that it will ignite within us the spirit of revolution.”

Palestinian civilians in the eyes of Hamas are their first line of defense, Geneva Conventions be damned.

Martyrs Inc. under Deif and Sinwar’s evil management is a mass-production enterprise — and grotesquely, the younger the fallen, the better.

None of this is new.

Weaponizing civilians — Palestinians and Israelis alike — is a Hamas specialty, one shared by Tehran and Moscow.

Hamas has used Gazans as human shields since 2007.

It does so to enable the firing of rockets into Israel, often siting their weapons near schools, hospitals and mosques.

Ditto “locating military or security-related infrastructures such as HQs, bases, armories, access routes, lathes or defensive positions within or in proximity to civilian areas,” according to NATO StratCom COE, a military think tank.

Far from protecting civilians, as evidenced on Oct. 7, Deif and Sinwar have made non-combatants their targets of choice.

Terrorize, kidnap and kill Israeli civilians — and then flee back to Gaza and hide behind Palestinian men, women and children to ensure mass casualties and garner international condemnation of Israel. 

We are living in a perverse dystopian reality.

Hamas is being rewarded for weaponizing civilians — and Israel condemned for taking steps to ensure that Deif and Sinwar are never again able to target Israeli civilians.

Since Oct. 7, Spain, Ireland and Norway have declared that they would recognize a Palestinian state.  

Days ago, the UN General Assembly voted to bestow upon Palestine additional “rights and privileges,” while university campuses across the US have been besieged by organized anti-Israel protests. 

Equally disturbing, President Biden appears poised to reward Hamas for using Palestinian and Israeli civilians as human shields.

National security has taken a back seat to November politics and Biden’s electoral pressures in Michigan. 

According to reports, here’s the Biden administration’s hoped-for plan: Israeli hostages would be released. Saudi Arabia would recognize Israel. And Hamas essentially would be allowed to survive, but perhaps not technically in charge of a post-war Gaza. 

It is fantasyland thinking. 

Iran and Hamas are simply playing the Biden administration.

Biden, led badly astray by National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, still naively believes he can cut a comprehensive deal with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. 

This is a dangerous and deadly game for Biden to be playing just to win a presidential election on Nov. 5.

On Monday, the IAEA reported that Tehran now has 313.2 pounds of HEU enriched to 60% — enough to build at least three nukes if enriched to a weapons-grade 90%.

Despite this, the White House is reportedly pressuring Britain, France and Germany to halt their efforts to get the IAEA to condemn Iran yet again.

Plus, Biden is said to be offering Iran and Hamas Benjamin Netanyahu’s head through backchannel negotiations led by Brett McGurk — if the mullahs agree to an overall peace deal. 

Translation: Hamas’ policy of weaponizing Palestinian civilians works for Biden’s White House.

Deif and Sinwar, as a result, have every incentive to continue using Palestinian human shields in Rafah as a means of weakening Israel. 

Moscow is no doubt pleased.

Biden is cutting the legs off a US ally and rewarding Russia’s allies in the Mideast. 

It’s madness — and could condemn future generations of Palestinians and Israelis alike to more of the same under the thumb of Hamas’ Martyrs Inc.