There's been a blockade of Gaza. The Israelis determine the caloric intake of the inhabitants of Gaza. Everyone in Gaza has an Israeli issued ID card.
I thought Israel's strategy as it related to Gaza was to "mow the grass" every couple of years. The Dahiya doctrine.
Are we going to forget that Gaza used to literally be Egypt? And that Egypt blockaded Gaza recently, even before the war?
Israel literally let hundreds of thousands of Gazans work in Israel, travel and let goods through... Egypt also has a border with Gaza. What did they do? Did they help them?
> I thought Israel's strategy as it related to Gaza was to "mow the grass" every couple of years. The Dahiya doctrine.
The Dahiya doctrine relates to the fact both Hamas and Hezbollah have been lobbing rockets at Israel, more or less continuously, for the last 15 years.
We could exhume a number of territorial mistakes that wouldn't be very kind to either side here. I think that it's best if we leave that can of worms where it lies, for the sake of Israel's territorial neighbors and particularly for the sake of Israelis.
I'm baffled by your wilful ignorance. You paint Israel as this benevolent entity. Here are some numbers from this latest conflict alone[1]:
Gaza Strip:
45,484+ killed
Indirect deaths likely to be multiple times higher
6,000 to 10,000+ missing
108,090+ wounded
16,300+ detained
1,900,000 displaced
835 killed
6,250+ wounded
12,100+ detained
1,609 killed
200+ captured
Israel:
952 civilians killed
902 security forces killed
13,572 wounded (as of 22 Jan. 2024)
251 captured or abducted
200,000–500,000 displaced
I recommend reading more about the timeline of events. This conflict is not 15 years old. And the answer isn't this straight-cut. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israeli–Palest...
one might wonder why that would be, just practicing lobbying skills for future basketball games at the olympics??!