A Times Investigation Tracked Israel's Use of 1 of Its Most Destructive Weapon

> Hamas may shoot people even for leaving bombed areas

Citing unsubstantiated rumors and conspiracy theories may indicate that you are not arguing in good faith. But I want to address your main talking point and clear what seems to be a misunderstanding on your part.

Many—if not most—Gazans do want to flee the war zone. They do want to seek shelter in a safe harbor where their safety is guaranteed. Many Gazans have family ties to refugees which have established them selves around the world, particularly in Europe, Canada and the USA. Currently they need to go through some bureaucracy to establish legitimacy (you can imagine how hard that is while bombs are dropping around you), then they need to flee south to Rafah (again through an active war zone, so pretty dangerous), and finally they need to bribe an Egyptian border guard. Before the war the bribe would cost somewhere between 2,000 - 3,000 € but could go as high as 10,000 €. I think today it is a bit cheaper but still in the order of hundreds to thousands of euros.

People are doing this because they are desperate. They are hungry and they are afraid, they want to go to a place where they can sleep a full night and have a warm meal at least once a day.

A non-existing theoretical camp city on the Sinai peninsula proposed by the very same people who are bombing their houses, that does not sound like such a place. If your aim is to find a safe harbor, then Egypt is not a reliable option (for most people; I’m sure there are some who have family or friends in Egypt willing to offer shelter).

Finally if you are a refugee, particularly if years pass before it is safe for you to return, it is highly likely that you establish a new life in your shelter and find a new community around it. You still have friends and family back home—and yes, you do call it home—which you would like to visit on occasion, but you may still want to keep your current life where you found the shelter. Any immigrant will tell you—refugee or not—that home is relative, and you can find a new home in a new location, while still seeing your old place as your home.

Right, yet Israel was founded because of some (utterly cringe) stuff that (supposedly) happened thousands of years ago.

And what I am "on about" is that driving people out is genocide. You are not talking about whether they might like the climate in Germany or Switzerland more, but whether they might "prefer" to not be bombed and starved.

> I thought the West was pro taking in people who live in war zones

While we're sending arms to the parties committing genocide, which we don't mind, because we're "pro this one thing" with blinders on? That view is so simplicisist you should first ask if anyone even holds it, instead of demanding answers based on it.