‘Their goal was to capture people and, through that, gain political power. ‘ nothing to do with living in an occupied state ? Living in an occupied state that the Israelis engineered they could with hold vital necessities of life - drinking water, power, food, and other necessities and being totally unable to do anything about it. And the world wasn’t paying attention. You weren’t paying attention to more than 2.23 Million people, most refugees from other places taken over by Israel -being held hostage.- you know what? At the beginning of the Genocide the support from Gazan’s for Hamas increased, such is the desperation, and anger. Now, well what can you do against genocide? You could do something but your only quarrel is with Hamas. Yes they committed war crimes when they breached the (illegal) border, and virtually walked in to the terrain of a militarily dominant power. If you say the retribution by the Israelis should have been expected, yes, every couple of years they have bombed Gaza for sending a few rockets that rarely hit anything! but this? You’re excusing this? You’re justifying this? I don’t know who you really are , but most of us call it as it is War Crimes and Genocide of a people already living under apartheid in their own country.