Only a few months before the Oct 7, 2023 massacre in Israel, Gazans were marching in the streets against Hamas and taking a beating only months before Hamas started this current war, to purposely invite Israel into Gaza.
In July and August 2023, thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip took to the streets to protest chronic power outages, poor economic conditions in the territory, and Hamas’s taxation of stipends intended for the poor paid by Qatar.— Source: Le Monde, Associated Press, and more. The Hamas members that enriched themselves thought it would be good time to attack Israel to take the heat off themselves by sacrificing their own citizens.