My sympathies are with all the civilian population in the area.
By your own logic here, you would suggest that the people killed in the heinous terrorist attack in october 2023 were killed because they did not stop being violent?
Of course that is a ridiculous statement.
Palestinians have been oppressed and attacked and their land taken, by Israel, for many decades.
This does not justify terrorist attacks, but neither do the attacks justify what Israel has done.
We can keep in mind that the most promising peace deal was sabotaged by extremists from Israel.
I have no sympathy for terrorists of any nationality or designation, which is why I condemn both Hamas and the current administration of Israel.
Massacres happened on both sides, but one side (the instigators) had leadership telling them to flee, maybe because it wasn't really their homeland to begin with; they were just settlers from all over the region. And the other side stayed, because it was their ancestral homeland.
Have you done a survey, like how many people ran away because of the massacres per se, and how many ran away because their leaders told them to (for reasons unrelated to avoiding a possible massacre)?
You seem to assume that it is 0% of the former and 100% of the latter, which I find dubious.
Because even if it is let's say 50% and 50%, it is no longer true to say that all have left voluntarily.
By your own logic here, you would suggest that the people killed in the heinous terrorist attack in october 2023 were killed because they did not stop being violent?
Of course that is a ridiculous statement.
Palestinians have been oppressed and attacked and their land taken, by Israel, for many decades. This does not justify terrorist attacks, but neither do the attacks justify what Israel has done.
We can keep in mind that the most promising peace deal was sabotaged by extremists from Israel.
I have no sympathy for terrorists of any nationality or designation, which is why I condemn both Hamas and the current administration of Israel.