Hamas had twenty years to become a government. It was uninterested in doing so. Israel is not the genocidal agent here.
Hamas had twenty years to become a government. It was uninterested in doing so. Israel is not the genocidal agent here.
VERY low level.
Israel didn't occupy Gaza so how is an "occupier" controlling everything? What about Egypt? If Israel controlled everything then how did lathes for making rockets, trucks, machine guns, RPGs, grenades, assault rifles, mines, get to Gaza?
Your "open air camp" is my "Singapore". It was up to the Gazans to decide what to do on this piece of land they were given control over. Even if they aspire to have the entire of Mandatory Palestine they could have chosen not to do this using violence.
Israel didn't destroy airports or seaports. Gaza never had a deep seeport, the water is shallow, and the fishing ports exist. Israel does have a naval blockage on Gaza so that Hamas couldn't get tanks and artillery and more weaponry in to attack it with, a fairly reasonable position. Similarly Israel will not allow airplanes to fly in either, for the same reasons.
I'm not following on "non-governmental party", didn't Hamas win the elections and rule Gaza as its government?
> Hamas had twenty years to become a government. It was uninterested in doing so.
This isn't true. Hamas taxes the inhabitants of Gaza [0].
Israel collects taxes on imports and exports from Gaza, and income tax on the pay of Gaza residents who were employed inside Israel. But transactions which occur entirely inside Gaza are not taxed by Israel, only by Hamas.
[0] see e.g. https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/2024/01/23/hamas-fundin...