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Chris Sinnard You make an equivalence between fertilizer rockets and the war, while completely ignoring the blockade, the "ceasefire", and the amount of control Israel exerts of people that it "stopped" occupying three years ago and call it QED.
Hamas now imports rockets made from Iran and North Korea, and has done so since 2005. It's current favorite rocket is the Grad, which has a range of over 20 kilometers. It is a sophistical unguided rocket.
While the 3,000 plus rockets that Hamas has fired at Israel have caused few deaths in ratio of number launched, that's mostly because Israel has a sophistical attack warning system coupled with bunkers to protect it's civilian population.
Just today, a Grad rocket slammed into a Israeli kinder garden.
Israeli closure of their border with Gaza has been based on attacks at the checkpoints, or in response to rocket launches.
Egypt closed it's borders because opening the Rafah because it didn't want to implicitly recognize Hamas' takeover of Gaza.
Yes, Israel would love for Hamas to be crushed and gone, but Hamas is certainly not blameless here by any means.
Had Hamas stopped firing rockets, even after seizing control of Gaza, then it would have been very hard for Israel to justify any border closings.
Hamas wants the borders closed, so it can complain to the World, and people like you can rant that not enough Jews have been killed by Hamas rockets.
