On Hamas Being the Only (as Far as I'm Aware) Entity In the Annals of Human Civilization that Has Put Forward a Human Sacrifice Strategy to Achieve a Military Victory

I mean, sure, there've been armies that served up troops as "cannon fodder" (from Rome to the Zulus to the French during WW1) but to intentionally get as many of your own civilians slaughtered as a public relations tactic, that I'm having trouble finding (hiding behind Godot, perhaps).