Hamas strike on Israel - Threadbans in op - mod warning in OP updated 19/10/23

The economic impacts of the Gaza blockade have been huge

Blockade of the Gaza Strip - Wikipedia

The World Bank estimated in 2015 that the GDP losses caused by the blockade since 2007 was above 50%, and entailed large welfare losses. Gaza's manufacturing sector, once significant, shrunk by as much as 60 percent in real terms, due to the wars in the past 20 years and the blockade. Gaza's exports virtually disappeared since the imposition of the 2007 blockade. 

It is estimated that in November, less than 20,000 liters of fuel per week entered Gaza via the tunnels, compared to nearly 1 million liters per day until June 2013. The Gaza Power Plant (GPP), which had been supplying 30 percent of the electricity available in Gaza, has been exclusively dependent on Egyptian diesel smuggled through the tunnels, since early 2011. On 1 November, after depleting its fuel reserves, the GPP was forced to shut down, triggering power outages of up to 16 hours per day, up from 8–12 hours prior to that.

Following the implementation of the blockade, Israel halted all exports from the Gaza Strip. Israeli human rights organization Gisha, the Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, obtained an Israeli government document which says "A country has the right to decide that it chooses not to engage in economic relations or to give economic assistance to the other party to the conflict, or that it wishes to operate using 'economic warfare'".[147] Sari Bashi, the director of Gisha, said that this showed that Israel wasn't imposing its blockade for its stated reasons of a security measure to prevent weapons from entering Gaza, but rather as collective punishment for the Palestinian population of Gaza.

In May 2015, the World Bank reported that the Gaza economy was on the "verge of collapse". 40% of Gaza's population lived in poverty, even though around 80% received some sort of aid.

International law regards a blockade as an act of war.[214] The blockade has been criticized by former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)[215] and other human rights organizations. In 2011, a panel of UN experts concluded that the naval blockade of Gaza constituted collective punishment and in doing so violated international law, contradicting a previous UN investigation that declared it was legal.

Before the Hamas attack, they had nearly 50% unemployment.

....so they're not going to destroy Hamas?

No.

I am just destroying the argument that this conflict is rooted in the falsehood that it was because the Jews were mean to Palestinians.

It goes deeper than that, and the unfortunate truth is that much of it is based on hatred for Jews.

It was Arafart who rejected the Olso accords first and foremost, not Rabin.

Also, are you saying that it was Bibi who killed Rabin?

My aim is at the regime that runs Gaza. Hamas.

They need to be eradicated.

You're wrong I'm afraid. It's not ethnic cleansing but it is illegal.

Ruth FitzGerald SC: International humanitarian law in the conflict between Israel and Hamas | Irish Legal News

Requiring the population to move to enable the attainment of military objective

Article 49 of the Fourth Convention provides that individual, or mass, forcible transfer, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, “regardless of their motive”.

Civilians are under no duty to remove themselves from an area of conflict, although if they wish to leave, they may do so unless their departure is contrary to the national interests of the state (Article 35 of the Fourth Convention). Further, Article 17 of Additional Protocol II provides that the displacement of civilians shall not be ordered unless “the security of the civilians involved or imperative military reasons so demand”. Where such displacements occur, all possible measures must be taken in order that the civilians are afforded satisfactory shelter, hygiene, safety and nutrition.

The setting of a deadline by the Israeli authorities for the population of Gaza City to move south, with the threat of intense operations in Gaza City, taken with the failure to secure the conditions for the receipt of the civilians south of Wadi Gaza may constitute a constructive forcible transfer.

Article 17 of Additional Protocol II provides that civilians shall not be compelled to leave their own territory for reasons connected with the conflict. Although Israel is not a party to the Protocol, the efforts of third parties to provide a humanitarian corridor into Sinai could be viewed as aiding and abetting Israel in the transfer of protected persons contrary to Article 49 of the Fourth Convention and Article 17 of Additional Protocol II as their intention is not relevant.

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Many moved south with no shelter, water, safety or nutrition. Israel also continued to bomb the south.

The issue for many is that we are headed into another night where children in their hundreds are going to be mutilated. That to many is unconscionably inhuman

You are posting a plan which involved the movement of Arabs and would have gerrymandered to have an Israeli majority on what was left. It doesn't show what you appear to think it shows.

An analogy in the Irish context would have been a hypothetical Cromwell expelling almost all the Irish to Connacht, leaving 3,000 behind in the other 3 provinces and then moving in 7,000 planters and then saying "sure of course we should have 70% of the island. Our population is 70% of the areas we are in"

Efforts continue to smear Palestinian civilian sympathy as terrorism

Do you know anything about the open air prison that is Gaza? Hypothetical but if Israel defeats Hamas 100% - all dead - is that the end of hostilities? Problem solved? No more terrorist groups? Great place to live again? Is it that simple for you? These might help.

Gaza Strip - Wikipedia

Blockade of the Gaza Strip - Wikipedia

Israelis are bombing refugee camps, hospitals, the Red Cross, Medicines San Frontieres, aid workers, everything that moves. They are now simply out of control.

RTE

Red Cross convoy hit by gunfire

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said a humanitarian convoy carrying lifesaving medical supplies came under fire in Gaza City.

The convoy of five trucks and two Red Cross vehicles was carrying supplies to health facilities, including to Al-Quds hospital, when it was hit, an ICRC statement said, adding that two trucks were damaged and a driver lightly wounded.

Absolutely. Who is going to be easier to radicalise into running across a border in a pair of tracksuit bottoms with an AK-47 on a suicide mission in a few years - the now 13 year old boy that has seen his family house demolished and all his family crushed to death, or a 13 year old boy whose biggest care in the world is what version of iphone makes the best TikTok videos on while he looks forward to getting to college to study as an engineer or doctor.

Of course, the Arabs were against partition. They were a majority in Palestine. Why would they want it split up?

Naturally, they didn't want to have 400,000 Arabs to be part of Israel with a 600, 000 jewish majority controlling them and the Arabs being second class citizens. It was a rotten deal for them brought about by massive pressure being put on the US and financial incentives and bribes to other countries. It was sheer stupidity by the UN. Maybe if they had proposed a more balanced solution, there might have been some hope of peace