> Israel was viscously attacked unprovoked
Unprovoked is a stretch.
Settlers have been given free rein to commit terror acts all throughout the Palestinian Territories.
And Hamas has been propped up by the Netanyahu government for years.
Unprovoked is a stretch.
Settlers have been given free rein to commit terror acts all throughout the Palestinian Territories.
And Hamas has been propped up by the Netanyahu government for years.
Not quite:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_G...
This is not to say that Israel permitted Gaza to have any reasonable sort of economic development (as a simple example, it’s effectively a country with two not-very-open land borders and no port, which surely made trade rather challenging).
If you want an analogy, imagine roughly the population of San Francisco plus San Mateo County, but with under half the land area, hostile relations and extremely limited travel across the land border with Santa Clara County and points South, with no bridges and no port. Throw in a near-complete dependency on Santa Clara for water and electricity, and nowhere near enough agriculture. (At least San Mateo County has a decent amount of farming to the West.) Take out the hot tech scene as well, and the economic situation would not be awesome.
What was the total number of Palestinians killed by Settler terrorist attacks in 2022? Do you have that handy? What was the number of Israelis killed by Palestinian terrorist attacks during that time?
167 Palestinians and 12 Israelis in the west bank. All deaths, not just by settlers etc.
If a Palestinian attempts to stab someone and is shot that's not the same situation as "settler" terrorist attacks.
I think you should answer my question.
Also please count Israelis in Israel killed by Palestinians from the west bank.
Maybe by "is" you mean since Oct 7th. But again that's not provocation, that's after the fact. If you think Gaza was occupied how come the IDF needs to re-occupy it?
Killing people and children along the border is NOT a characteristic of occupation. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230513-gaza-israel-confe...
Counting calories of food consumed by Gazans is not occupation : https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE89G0NM/
Restricting water supply is most definitely not an act of occupying power : https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/11/the-occu...
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2021-0...
All these are before the Oct 7.