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 Israel never accepted the native people going way back to 1948.  They refuse to recognize their rights, lest they vote against the Jews.  They just keep them in walled areas with no rights, and militarily (and economically) enforce that they cannot establish a government for themselves.  This didn't start on October 7, it has been going on for 70 years.  As the natives outnumber the immigrant Jews, they "mow the lawn" to protect against any possible future where the Palestinians might happen to acquire voting rights.  What is going on in Rafah is more lawn mowing.  They probably won't wipe them all out, but they apparently gleefully wipe some of them out, and giggle about making them pick up their tents and move to another "safe area".  Sick.

“How great is the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah and how very grave their sin." - The Lord  (Genesis 18:20)
 
 Only ~20% of Israelis are immigrants. The rest are ethnically from the region. 
 When I say "Immigrant Jews" I mean all the descendants of the Jews that immigrated there.  The definition of a "Palestinian" is anybody ethnically native to the region.

If you add up all the people whose ancestors came from that region, the Palestinians, you get 7,031,698.  If you add up all the people calling themselves Jews you get 7,181,000.  That's my point.  The Jews maintain the population of non-Jews to be strictly less than 50% via bombs. 
 Thats an interesting bit of math