Too bad you are so willing to believe everything you hear or read on or in the Western press, especially the BBC. Ever notice how most of the stories having to do with Israel and the "Gazans" begins with the death or destruction on the Palestinians side, and then almost as an afterthought it gets mentioned that it was in retaliation for missiles fired at civilians in an Israeli town. Hamas was left millions of dollars worth of greenhouses to grow food, develop the place and help the people when the Israelis left. They didn't destroy everything rather than have the Palestinians have it. So, Hamas tore them up and used whatever metal they could to make rockets and weapons to attack Israel. What you are also seemingly unaware of is that Hamas fires the rockets from schools, and other public places knowing the Israeli military will triangulate the incoming rockets point of origin and fire back. They don't seem to care a lick about the lives of "their people" when they put them in harms way like that.

Steven