Didn’t Israel/Europeans start this war by occupying Palestine and driving out nearly a million Palestinians then caging 2 million of them in a sliver of land?
*edit: I'd like to point out at this moment that the top two replies to this question have equal votes of one saying "yes" and while the other says "no".
The middle east conflict will continue to go on until one side or the other has nothing left.
Quick question, do you think warsaw ghetto uprising against its lawful rulers was justified?
Additionally, 400 of them were idf members, which makes even such fucked up operation better than israel either by ratio to civilians or volume of death.
Isreal wasn't ruling over Palestine when they were attacked.
Why would Palestine/hamas invade a city in isreal and shoot everyone they could if they did not want this war? Palestine set the rules for this war. Surprise attack. Gun down everyone. After setting up the appearance of being in a truce.
How many of those do you think the IDF actually killed? They immediately buried the vehicles from the rave a mile outside of the largest open air prison in the world, because as everyone knows machine guns cause cars to explode and catch fire like in an action movie and not with hellfire missiles from a helicopter.
No, Zionists started this by being land-stealing settler colonists that put Palestinians into ghettos as part of an apartheid system. Decades of disposession, abuse, disablement, murder. Far, far higher numbers than you cite.
If you think that the equation is as simple as the number of dead women and children then you should be on the side of Palestine.
Are you one of those dickheads that thinks there is no other history behind this conflict and that it only started on Oct 7th?
It is occupied and stolen land that belongs to Palestine. They are fighting for liberation against an occupation that has them trapped in a 25 x 4 mile long open air prison with a complete blockade against it.
Exercise some fucking thought and intellectual curiosity for once in your fucking life.
It didn't. It is a resistence of an occupied people against a occupation force. It's ongoing since 1948, with Israel having started large scale ethnic cleansing and massacres the year prior.
Hamas and its allies did targeted strikes at military installations sorrounding Gaza (I wonder why those exist, hmmmm), Israel placed said installations next to civilian settlements.
Per current information, the number killed by hamas et all is at around 600. Almost entirely military and security forces.
Israel, gunned down the rest with helicopters and tanks. Clear evidence are the mountains of burned cars shown after the event. The Hamas fighters were lightly armed and had nowhere near the firepower to do so much damage.