Your own excerpt says they were accused, and that it has not been recognized as Human Shielding.

that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening at all? The ICJ hasn’t even finished proceedings and people are calling it a genocide even though we quite literally don’t know yet. It’s pretty common for the militaristic tactics in the middle east to be very flexible let’s say. So it wouldnt surprise to me learn that they’re at least doing things tangential to human shields, like residing in buildings full of civilians, consenting or not, in hopes of not being fucking bombed, or at the very least, for the press it gains them.

It’s not impossible this is literally just a psyop to deter israel from bombing them (which isn’t working) and then doing the same thing but globally across social media. If there are hamas millitants or whatever they want to call them residing in these places, at some point it would be beneficial for hamas if they stopped residing in places with civilians, because it obviously doesn’t seem to be doing much at this point.

Though obviously if israel is just, randomly bombing civilians in the hopes of hitting terrorists, it doesn’t really help. But we have no idea, and we do know that it doesn’t make any sense militarily, so we can assume they’re probably not doing that.