Hamas has become synonymous with the Palestinian people in Gaza courtesy of the policy of the Israeli government through Israeli Defence Forces projecting every man, woman, and child in Gaza as Hamas.
By October 2024, Israel said it had bombed 40,000 locations in the Gaza Strip (which is 360 km2), with estimates of the bomb tonnage dropped on Gaza being more than 70,000 tonnes (Wikipedia)
According to academic Robert Pape, this 70,000 tonnes surpassed the combined bomb tonnage dropped on Dresden, Hamburg, and London in World War II (Wikipedia)
This is 2 times the combined explosive force of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima (15,000 tonnes) and Nagasaki (20,000 tonnes) both in Japan in World War II (World Nuclear Org.)
Hamas is there in the entire 2002 families, each made up of father, mother, children, and sometimes extended family members, wiped off the surface of the earth by IDF bombs.
Hamas is there in the over 42,000 orphaned children whose parents and siblings have been bombed into the next realm of life.
Hamas is in the faces of the over 119, 846 Palestinians in Gaza injured by IDF bombs since October 7, many now without limbs and with mental health crises now the new normal
Hamas is in the over 52,000 Palestinians in Gaza killed by IDF bombs since October 7, and the tens of thousands either entombed in the rubble or declared missing.
Hamas is in the faces of the over 200 Palestanian journalists killed in Gaza since October 7 and 408 aid workers, including 280 UNRWA staff.
Hamas is in the faces of over 1400 medical personnel bombed or shot to death by the IDF in Gaza made up of doctors, nurses, first medical responders, ambulance drivers, etc.
Hamas is in hospitals, schools, universities, mosques, residential apartment blocks, power plants, water plants, and road infrastructure bombed and completely destroyed by the IDF in Gaza.
All Israel News sources estimate that actual Hamas fighters in Gaza prior to October 7 numbered about 30,000, of which the IDF has killed about 10,000 and wounded another 10,000 since October 7.
All Israel News also believes that Hamas has been able to recruit about additional 13,000 fighters since October 7, meaning it still has in all about 23,000 fighters.
According to the Times of Israel, “All of the IDF’s standing army infantry and armoured brigades are now deployed to the Gaza Strip, as Israel prepares to further intensify its offensive against Hamas.
In addition to the Golani, Paratroopers, Givati, Commando, Kfir, Nahal, 7th, 188th, and 401st brigades, a small number of reserve units are also in the Strip.
The IDF had previously announced that five divisions are operating in Gaza, amounting to tens of thousands of troops.”
This is not counting the total air superiority of the IDF through its airforce, use of drones, use of Artificial Intelligence, Artillery over Gaza, a strip of land measuring 365 km2 (41km long and 6 to 12 km wide).
This strip of land, bordered by Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and the Mediterranean sea, is completely cut off from the rest of the world, and over 75% of its infrastructure and housing are totally destroyed.
This tiny costal enclave is the place from which 23,000 Hamas fighters have apparently succeeded in projecting itself through the over 2,000,000 Palestinians in Gaza to warrant this level of carnage by the IDF.
Then, from March 2, 2025, the Israeli government commenced a complete humanitarian aid blockage of Gaza again, seeing Hamas as the ultimate benefactor of the aid even if 2 million Palestinian faced starvation and famine.
While limited humanitarian aid has now been let into Gaza by the Israeli government after over 90 days because of pressure from many of its Western allies, a full scale offensive to capture Gaza by the IDF is now ongoing.
This ongoing carnage in Gaza by the IDF was never against Hamas, who emerged from tunnels buried deep within the ground to engage in guerilla fighting against the IDF every now and then.
What the world has a ringside seat to in Gaza since October 7 is the 21st Century version of genocide and crimes against humanity committed by the IDF at the behest of the Israeli government against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
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