as usual, the Palestinian death toll is now at least 5 times higher than the Israeli death toll and Israel isn’t done yet

I mean, definitionally Hamas is the aggressor here. The force Israel has traditionally employed in response is nowhere near proportional or responsible, but they have rarely been the inciter in large-scale armed conflicts.

Bombast and hyperbole don’t win you arguments or minds on topics like this. Let the atrocities of Israel’s violent apartheid speak for themselves, free of embellishment.

Son what you’re saying is Israel has killed over 4000 Palestinians this decade, including 200 this year prior to this attack, and Palestine launches a counter-attack that leaves 40 dead, and because Palestine retaliated to initial attacks they are now the aggressor “definitionally”? Is the only way to not be labeled the aggressor to soak up every single death at the hands of apartheid in stride?

If you take 10 punches and then throw 1, you are not the aggressor and for anyone to suggest such is for them to side with the aggressor.

When a fight stops and then you lob rockets at civilians years later, that’s a new conflict. This isn’t difficult to put together.

Did you know Israel is blockading Gaza?

I don’t really see how that’s relevant, here. It’s horrible; however, it’s also not relevant to whether or not Hamas started a new discrete conflict (they did).