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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict_in_2023
In September 2023 alone there were 15 incidents in this conflict.
Roughly 34 people died in September due to fighting
What an unbelievably badly one-sided way of writing an article! Date - Israel did this; date - Israel did that; date - Israel did the other.
If you're just scanning the page you'd get the impression Israel are constantly attacking Palestinians for no reason. But in most of the paragraphs you just read on a bit to get the background: IDF said, and Hamas confirmed, that their fighters shot first.
The vast majority of that article could be rewritten as: Date - Hamas attacked Israel who responded in self-defence.
It's wikipedia, feel free to edit it and hash out the biases on the talk page
Low level shit isn't a war
Whatever label you want to put on it, the conflict existed before October. It is a continuum of back and forth violence
Whatever label you want to put on it, there was a ceasefire in place and had been one for years.
I don't know what ceasefire you're referring to, I couldn't find any documentation for a ceasefire.
In 2023 there are multiple instances of Hamas launching rockets at Israel, Israeli soldiers killing Hamas, and Hamas killing Israeli soldiers. You can check the Wikipedia of the conflict for the details.
A ceasefire that allows for rocket attacks, and soldiers fighting, seems ineffective
The ceasefire meant that Gaza wasn't subject to military action on the scale of a war, like it is today. A low, simmering conflict involves a few hundred deaths a year, a war is orders of magnitude more vicious. You know this. Why are you deliberately being obtuse?
conflicts like this have multiple participants, who have multiple viewpoints, and you're not doing justice to the conflict by saying there was peace before October.
I'm not being obtuse, I'm trying to use English correctly:
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/cease-fire#English
cease-fire (plural cease-fires)
In warfare, an agreed end to hostilities for a specific purpose. (Typically only temporary).
By pointing out the continued history of violence, we have demonstrated that there was not a end of hostilities, that there was not an agreement between the belligerent parties, there was not a ceasefire.
I will agree with you, however before October, Gaza strip was being ignored. The world was more or less happy with the situation, but the gazans weren't.