What was the purpose of this level of destruction?

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Gazans are returning to their homes and are horrified to see the level of destruction. Their joy mixed with despair.

www.timesofisrael.com/gazans-joy-over-ceasefire-tempered-by-shock-as-they-return-to-destroyed-homes/

We can feel joy that the hostages are returning home, relief that Hamas will be sidelined - but how do we reconcile with the death and destruction that has happened in Gaza?

This sounds like an unfounded conspiracy theory. You sound like someone who will twist the facts to your worldview rather than analyse facts to inform your worldview.

Is this news to you?

The prime minister also said that, “whoever is against a Palestinian state should be for” transferring the funds to Gaza, because maintaining a separation between the PA in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza helps prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.

https://theweek.com/politics/why-israels-netanyahu-encouraged-suitcases-of-cash-for-hamas

https://theweek.com/politics/why-israels-netanyahu-encouraged-suitcases-of-cash-for-hamas

Half the people in Gaza are children. Do you think they are Hamas? Your thread is so dehumanising of innocent civilians. It also explains why some people may not understand international concerns about war crimes.

There a lot of concerns raised that the extremists in Israel are influencing Israeli policy due to Netanyahu fearing collapse of his coalition.

For example -

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/07/corrupt-bargain-behind-gazas-catastrophe/683690/

Jesus, what an awful post.

You could have saved yourself the bother and just replied "yes".

I feel some posters are really showing their hatred for Gazan civilians now the ceasefire is hopefully still on.

Same for the some posters simmering hatred of Israelis.

Although they haven’t even hid it, from the very beginning.

No one who wasn’t full of hate for Jews Israel., would believe the transparent propaganda coming out of Gaza. I don’t believe people are that dumb unless they have an ulterior motive.

But some supporting Israel seem unaware of concerns about decisions taken by Netanyahu that even Israeli are raising? For example if funding of Hamas by his government to prevent a 2SS.

it is possible to feel disgust of Hamas and decisions taken by Israel

If only Israel had allowed journalists into Israel during all this time and any hamas propaganda could have been easily ignored.

I agree
We’re seeing it across many threads.
How worrying if this is a wider thought process

Which posts
and no, ‘there are so many’, isn’t posting proof of anything

Back at you, what is your motive? You express hatred for an entire indigenous group defending those who are murdering them and if anyone defends them you say they are antisemitic. What exactly is your angle, why are you distorting facts and twisting words?

Anti genocide posters have only expressed a disgust for genocide and war, several of the pro Israeli bunch on this thread have expressed that they believe Palestinians deserve their treatment (ie being murdered) and have expressed that they believe all Palestinians are hamas - well if that isn’t a big pile of bigotry and prejudice all wrapped up in hate I don’t know what is. Honestly you should try and get out more, meet people of different ethnicities, talk to a Palestinian and actually listen to their views. They are human beings the same as you!

It's widely known information!

It's on the Hamas Wikipedia page:

"Hamas was initially discreetly supported by Israel as a counter-balance to the secular PLO"

Learn more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas

It says "In the late 2010s and early 2020s, Israeli officials encouraged Qatari support for Hamas,[8] especially by way of approving the transfer of large sums of financial aid by Qatar's government to the organization.[9]"

It's much easier to wipe out a community if they are ruled by a crackpot religious fanatical group like Hamas; hence why Israel encouraged Hamas to be well funded and well established in Gaza.

The destruction of Gaza is all Israel's fault, yes. The thousands dead civilians, children and related famine, yes all Israel's fault. They dropped the bombs, cut off the borders.

What agency did Palestinians have if it's wealthy neighbour is controlling it's borders and politics. I'll repeat, Israel ensured Hamas was well funded to prevent the more secular and liberal PLO unifying the west bank and Gaza which would have made a peaceful 2-state solution more likely.

Netanyahu didn't want Palestinians to choose peace, and used geopolitical influence to ensure it didn't. How could he wipe out a peaceful neighbour?!! He needed the terrorist label to justify his violence.

This is publicly acknowledged by many figures in Israel's government and security services.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-qatar-money-prop-up-hamas.html

You are spot on @Naanspiration. And as usual the only defence from you @TicklishMauveSquid is to cite the ‘barbarism’ of the Palestinians as though this awful situation began on October 7th which of course was ‘barbarous’ but Israel had behaved ‘barbarously’ well before that. There is a much broader history of ‘barbarism’ which you choose to ignore and separate by referring to the actions of Palestinians as ‘barbarous’ while defending or ignoring parallel actions by Israel. Surely nothing is more ‘barbarous’ than a genocide?

There is no genocide. This will be proved if and when Israel goes in the dock.

You can name it or not but the barbarism continues.