Comment by xg15

OK, but it's not exactly like the population there had any choice, or even any way before the war to improve their circumstances of living.

Also, reminder that Smotrich, Ben Gvir and friends were already hard at work taking over the west bank before Hamas did Oct. 7.

Israel could have sidelined Hamas, boosted the PA and gave Gazans an actual alternative to the fundamentalist vision of Hamas. They did the exact opposite.