Hamas leader says 'we have the Israelis right where we want them' in leaked messages, WSJ reports

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43. If I'm not mistaken, Sinwar isn't the one killing thousands of civilians

And if Israel didn't want this to be a genocide, why were they so happy to oblige and kill so many Gazans?

There was no NEED to do it, but Sinwar knew that by conducting those attacks, Israel would respond with overwhelming force, with the goal (on Sinwar's part) of starting some kind of holy war. Again though, we're talking about killing tens of thousands of civilians as if they're not humans, as if every death of a noncombatant isn't a tragedy. When did we lose our humanity?

And yes, I know atrocities were committed on Oct 7th, and it was awful, but responding to violence with more violence just perpetuates the endless war there, and its mostly civilians who suffer because of it. Who is more guilty here, the ones who commit the the initial act, or the ones who respond with overwhelming force? We're forgetting the human cost of all this war, and both sides are more than willing to sacrifice the people of Gaza to further their own ends, and that's the really sad and upsetting part.