CarolC I almost lost my life during an Israeli attack on Palestinian terrorists once, Have you?

Nope. But that is entirely irrelevant to what we are discussing. We are discussing what it is like for the Palestinians to live under Israeli occupation and, in the case of Gaza, an Israeli stranglehold on borders and air space, and an ongoing campaign of bombings and other kinds of attacks (ongoing for many years). That experience you mention does not in any way give you a better understanding than me about what life is like for the people living under such conditions.