Original sentence: In the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, the Minister for Foreign Affairs K Shanmugam said that the Palestinian militant organisation Hamas has "deliberately used civilians as (human) shields" and was responsible for rejecting the 15 July 2014 Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire.In the same speech to parliament, he also said that Hamas had been consistently launching rocket attacks at Israel, numbering over 2,000 missiles at one point, and this was what prompted the start of Israel's operation to destroy these rocket-launching sites, the smuggling tunnels and the munitions stockpiles to prevent attacks on Israel civilians
Edited sentence: In the recent conflict in Gaza, the Minister for Foreign Affairs K Shanmugam recognised that terrorist organisation Hamas has “deliberately used civilians as (human) shields” and was responsible for rejecting the 15 July 2014 Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire.In the same speech to Parliament, he also recognised that Hamas had been consistently launching rocket attacks at Israel, numbering over 2000 missiles at one point, and this was what prompted the start of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge to destroy these rocket-launching sites, the smuggling tunnels and the munitions stockpiles to prevent attacks on Israel civilians