Israel (now broader Mid East discussion)

WhoDatPhan78 said

Not really a perfect answer.

Hamas isn't holding the people in Gaza hostage. Many have no means to relocate. There isn't transportation or fuel.

The idea that the people remaining in Gaza are there because Hamas is forcing them to stay is just complete nonsense.

Kirby is counting on people not watching any media that is telling the story from inside Gaza.

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It isn't just Hamas who's making them stay there. In the 1960's it was the policies of most of the Arab world to shove their undesirables to Palestine, into the refugee camps, and make them stay there. They artificially increased the Palestinian population to far greater numbers than it had been. It was the creation of a people bomb.

They're people and we have to deal with them as people, but to not realize that these people are being used as weapons of war by their own terrorists is not rational.