How different it is when you have friends in the devastated zones...

Decent people, very human, open-minded people, by no means extremists or arsonists.

Maybe you should read what a journalist from Gaza has to say :

‘We, the people of Gaza, are also living like hostages of Hamas’   

https://www.timesofisrael.com/gazan-journalist-to-toi-we-the-people-of-gaza-are-also-living-like-hostages-of-hamas/

His name is Sami Obeid, born, in Gaza in 1959. Brave enough to speak his mind.

When the 8,000 settlers who lived on 25% of the land in Gaza were forced to evacuate by the Sharon Government, there were about 1,500 000 Palestinians who lived on the remaining 75%. Now they are about 2,300 000.

Half of them born after 2005, the year of the settlers' evacuation. Meaning all they have known is the war state, after the Islamists violently seized power from the secular Palestinians in 2007.

Go back ten years, to 2014. http://www.peacelines.org/gaza-summer-of-2014-c25458952

The pictures below were taken by displaced friends in Rafah.

We're expecting more pictures from them.
Will they be any different ?