There's something that doesn't add up...really.
If the Gazans are really victims of Hamas, why don't they seek the alliance of the IDF?
Why don't they welcome IDF soldiers as liberators and cooperate with them?
As far as my people remember, Sicilian civilians welcomed Americans as liberators, after the Nazis left the island.
It is the same reason why immigrant pockets in America, put up with their ethnic version of the mafia, and are often suspicious of the police who can help them. If you talk to the police and big bother ethnic mafia catches you, it will be bad for you, your family and friends. You are safer to pay the extortion and not talk to the police.
The Hamas Mafia is using human shields. These civilians; shields, are not freedom fighter, but are there out of fear of Hamas, who is more than willing to kill their own, for their own survival; human shields. The only way to protect the Palestinian civilians from Hamas is to leave them be; to avoid making them a target, while going after the head of the snake, who hides among their own scared and brain washed civilians.
The reason IDF does not help is the UN has become a type of shake down racket that sides with any opportunity that can leas to a transfer of wealth to them; middlemen. The US Democrat Party corrupted them by making the US the bad guy with deep pockets. The Dems get a cut.
If you go to any ethnic area, in any US city, connected to immigration, each new group brings its own version of the Hamas mafia who prey on them. The immigrants may still be illegal, so it is not easy to seek help from the police, since there is conflict of interest. They have to cooperate with their mafia who then recruits young men, who see this as a way to find security, by being part of the street thug gang.
In my city, there is a large population of South Eastern Asians and there are two main rival gangs. These gangs appears to be part of a rite of passage with many young men and women becoming active gang members when in their teens and twenties. They stay to the own, via the two gang competition. By their thirties they are phasing down and are no longer active members, but retain the prestige of a being a former gang member. From there they marry, work hard and buy homes, have families, etc, to become legitimate, while still being elders for gang protection. They figured out a way to accommodate the inevitable ethnic mafia, while using it as a stepping stone to social legitimacy; business owner who is protected as an Asian and as an American.
Hamas is sort of the same thing but in a country where there is less opportunity and their mafia is very cruel. Israel is seen as the rival gang with attack on human shields like bystanders of drive by shootings. This fuels the rage of the gang to fight on and get worse.