 HRW acknowledged they did not consider the motives of the civilians, such as whether they willingly assembled or not, and emphasized that it did not want to criticize non-violent resistance or any other form of peaceful protest, including civilians defending their homes.The United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict ("UNFFMG") that took place in 2008-2009 accepted the possibility that Hamas launched mortar attacks from the vicinity of a school and from residential homes, sometimes by threat of force against residents.The UN Mission found evidence that "rocket units of the Palestinian armed groups operated from within populated areas" and used threats of force to enter residential yards, including one instance where a resident said that "his father had previously been shot in the leg by a member of such an armed group when he had tried to prevent them from using his land as a rocket launching site."