Caporegime
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Of the 56 soldiers killed likely 50+ of them have been killed on the ground in Gaza( I would presume) as opposed to being killed by rocket attacks.
They've killed something ludicrous like 28 civilians with rocket attacks since 2001, I'm not going to downplay living with fear of bombs is nice or pleasant, but the severity/frequency of rocket attacks puts it up there with worrying about heart attacks, crossing the road level of events.
There is also still this underlying view with so many people that if Hamas wasn't firing rockets, that Israel do absolutely nothing to them outside of these heavier conflicts. Like the rockets provoked the whole situation and it's all Hamas's fault.
Hamas fired rockets after Israel LIED(they've admitted it now) saying Hamas kidnapped 3 kids, they knew they were dead and this is on the other side of the country to Gaza and they knew point blank it wasn't to do with Hamas. They lied, waited weeks and in this time knowing 100% it wasn't Hamas and wasn't anyone from Gaza, they bundled into what is an open air prison, and started rounding up Hamas members(and plenty of non Hamas members they simply presumed were Hamas), some of whom got killed. All under the apparent action to find these three kids.... they knew were nothing to do with Hamas, were already dead and were lying about this to their own people and the whole world.
Israel lies, rounds up and kills people illegally, immorally, Hamas retaliates..... Israel despite doing all the provoking, decides to level Gaza as a proportional response.
90% of the rockets are fired in response to illegal actions by Israel, illegal settlements, illegally seizing more land/homes, killing more innocent people, but rather than in a significant conflict, it's 1 at a time as people stand up to them as they have their homes taken away. Hamas have every right to retaliate and no Israel do not have a right to constantly cross the border and throw Palestinians out of their own homes, then take them over, or just knock them to the ground, nor do they have any authority to kill people who resist them doing this.... but they do it all the same.
They've killed something ludicrous like 28 civilians with rocket attacks since 2001, I'm not going to downplay living with fear of bombs is nice or pleasant, but the severity/frequency of rocket attacks puts it up there with worrying about heart attacks, crossing the road level of events.
There is also still this underlying view with so many people that if Hamas wasn't firing rockets, that Israel do absolutely nothing to them outside of these heavier conflicts. Like the rockets provoked the whole situation and it's all Hamas's fault.
Hamas fired rockets after Israel LIED(they've admitted it now) saying Hamas kidnapped 3 kids, they knew they were dead and this is on the other side of the country to Gaza and they knew point blank it wasn't to do with Hamas. They lied, waited weeks and in this time knowing 100% it wasn't Hamas and wasn't anyone from Gaza, they bundled into what is an open air prison, and started rounding up Hamas members(and plenty of non Hamas members they simply presumed were Hamas), some of whom got killed. All under the apparent action to find these three kids.... they knew were nothing to do with Hamas, were already dead and were lying about this to their own people and the whole world.
Israel lies, rounds up and kills people illegally, immorally, Hamas retaliates..... Israel despite doing all the provoking, decides to level Gaza as a proportional response.
90% of the rockets are fired in response to illegal actions by Israel, illegal settlements, illegally seizing more land/homes, killing more innocent people, but rather than in a significant conflict, it's 1 at a time as people stand up to them as they have their homes taken away. Hamas have every right to retaliate and no Israel do not have a right to constantly cross the border and throw Palestinians out of their own homes, then take them over, or just knock them to the ground, nor do they have any authority to kill people who resist them doing this.... but they do it all the same.