Hiding among civilians as human shields? Planning terrorism? Lobbing rockets? Electing and supporting a mafia-terrorist leadership?
In terms of global politics, the Palestinians are digging a deeper grave every year.
The geopolitical significance of Arabian oil will fade each year with alt energy and bevs.
Global warming will make the middle east increasingly hard to exist in without a technological base.
They keep increasing their population without an economy to support even 10% of it. Increasing geopolitical chaos means that foreign aid will disappear. Even if things were opened up, Gaza is a beggar economy that may not even know how to build a self sufficient economy based on their lack of resources or lack of competency in anything.
I find the moral absolutism of the Palestinian side in the face of their sins just tiresome, and it isn't helpful to resolve their exigent danger of mass starvation. All Israel needs to do is keep the current state of affairs and 80% of the Palestinians will starve to death at some point in the next 20 years.
If we want to collectively punish people who voted for (or whose election resulted in the rule of) a bunch of fucking morons, well... I have some bad news for US citizens...
I've seen comments unironically arguing for collective punishments when it came to the US, and they're at least popular enough that they don't show up as gray/[flagged].
Or Israeli citizens for that matter, they elected someone who is wanted by the ICC on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity much more recently than the Palestinians elected Hamas. That doesn't justify collective punishment either, of course.
A large chunk of Gaza are children. 43% of the population are below 14 years old.
For comparison, the median age in Europe is 40.
> The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) insists at least six of the medics were linked to Hamas - but has so far provided no evidence. It admits they were unarmed when the soldiers opened fire.
They really are pivoting to "these unarmed medics we shot without identifying them deserved it".