You are completely rewriting basic history, geography, and math to force a narrative. First of all, your math is way off: Israel has not occupied Gaza for '+80 years' Israel is 78 years old and didn't even control Gaza until 1967, meaning it was 38 years, and Israel completely left 21 years ago. Second, your claim that Israel shut down all borders by early 2006 is historically false. After the August 2005 withdrawal, Israel and the Palestinian Authority signed the Agreement on Movement and Access (AMA) in November 2005, which opened the Rafah crossing to Egypt and planned for a seaport. What ruined it? The Palestinian population elected Hamas, and in June 2006, Hamas launched a cross-border raid, killed Israeli soldiers, and kidnapped Gilad Shalit. By 2007, Hamas launched a bloody civil war, throwing Palestinian Authority officials off roofs to seize total power. Only then did Israel and Egypt restrict the borders. The blockade was a defensive reaction to an armed terror state on the border, not the cause of it.
Furthermore, your point about electricity and water is a massive self-own. You ask how Israel could shut them off post-October 7th if they didn't control Gaza. Israel didn't enter Gaza to turn off switches; Israel turned off the utilities coming from inside Israel. Israel was selling power and water to Gaza because Hamas refused to build independent, functioning infrastructure for its people, choosing instead to dig up its own civilian water pipes to manufacture rocket shells something they proudly filmed and posted online as propaganda. No nation on earth is obligated to supply electricity and water to a regime that just crossed the border to slaughter 1,200 of its citizens.
Finally, you are trapping Israel in an impossible, hypocritical double standard: when Israel restricts the borders to stop Iranian missiles and other BS to defend itself, you call it 'collective punishment.' When Israel eases that exact pressure and allows Qatari cash, fuel, and electricity in so civilians don't starve, you flip the script and claim Israel is 'supporting and feeding Hamas.' Make up your mind. Your textbook theory that 'free trade and careers' will magically cure a jihadi death cult is incredibly naive. The masterminds of October 7th didn't launch a slaughter because they lacked 'career options.' They are driven by a fundamentalist religious ideology stated openly in their charter: the total erasure of Israel. Giving a totalitarian terrorist dictatorship unchecked, unlimited international trade won't turn them into peaceful businessmen; it just gives them the concrete, steel, and technology to build bigger tunnels and more advanced rockets
I just wrote a very demeaning comment and deleted it.
I realize now that i cannot argue against such fanatasism and cruelty.
When you go and support the murder and rape and cruelty against the palestinians in the west bank, in gaza and what israel is now committing in lebanon i feel like there's no hope left and you can shut your eyes and pretend it's necessary or a good thing and god help you.
I hope God will forgive you, because if Israel continues down this path the rest of the humans on this planet won't.
I wish you well.