Gaza as a Hostile Entity: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?

Recently Israel declared Gaza a hostile entity and on that basis has been implementing a new series of crushing sanctions significantly adding to the human misery and suffering of 1.5 million civilians in Gaza

Public statements on behalf of the Government of Israel link these sanctions to protection of the Israeli civilian population under daily assault from rockets fired from Gaza. This presupposes that the civilian population in Gaza are either themselves responsible for, or somehow more capable of, stopping the rocket fire than the powerful military of the occupying power.

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