If you think Hamas «started» anything, read up on the history. It’s a 75 year long illegal occupation.

Israel stated the war 17 years ago, minimum.

Blockades are acts of war.

This argument is the adult equivalent of grabbing someone's hand and punching them in the face with it while saying "stop hitting yourself"

You should be embarrassed for even making this argument.

Yes.

Nothing is more corrosive to an armies fighting capabilities then an occupation.

Keep telling yourself whatever you need to support your own narratives. I just wanna let you know that I think you are a cold-hearted person, and I hope that you, your family, or your people will never be thought of, as you are thinking and/or talking of the Palestinians right here.

They are deliberately bombing hospitals, schools and people fleeing. If you cannot open your eyes to see this, but rather argue about the technicalities of semantics to feel better, I wish you good luck in life.

Intentionally withholding food and water when you control all ingress is a way of extirpating a population without bombing and shooting them.

But so is dropping more explosive power than the two atomic bombs used in Japan into an area the size of Manhattan in a month.