I appreciate your desire for peace. I am writing this reply considering you genuinely do want peace and you are not another Hasbara and/or Hindutva troll those have been infesting PDF.
Unfortunately peace is nowhere near in sight. Israel does not want a peaceful solution. If they wanted, they would have abide by Oslo peace accord and not implement an apartheid regime. They have been gradually taking over Palestinian lands through continuous American and European settler integration into Palestinian lands. Intentionally violating the agreed terms in every possible way. If the Palestinians don't resist, they will eventually pushed out of their own country.
Watch this video if you are truly interested in understanding where the problem lies with the Zionist mentality -
As for Hamas using civilians as human shield - that is exactly the narrative of the Zionists. Gaza is a small stretch of land. The largest open air prison in the world. Where should Hamas go and protest? Should they do hunger strike? No point, Israel would gladly let them die slowly. Should they do political demonstration? Israel will crush it with its military.
Israel dolls out collective punishment for the smallest acts of resistance, typical of an apartheid regime. A child throws a rock at a tank, IDF shoots and murders the child and gets away with no repercussions. No sanction from the so called civilized Western world. When political solution has failed, the only solution left is armed struggle. And whenever there is any resistance of any kind - Israel dolls out collective punishment on civilians. It is not exactly the case of human shield - rather a case of ethnic cleansing.