Israel Pulled out of Gaza, to the internationally recognised boundaries, but the Palastinian millitants took this as a sign of weakness, and carried on attacks from there.

The rockets they fire are not as powerful, or as long ranged as Israeli artillery, but they still kill people, mainly civilians. As a statement of intent, they are very powerful, and each one says that the Palastinian authorities either can not or will not stop attacks on civilians.

Are the Palastinian people helped by a Goverment of theirs that pays the families of suicide bombers? A bomber kills some more civilians on a bus, and Israel closes the borders for a week, so the Palastinians with jobs in israel can't work. An impoverised and hungry people are more likley to turn to violence, and it's violence that keeps them in that poverty.