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No one is justifying attacks on civilians, but your assertion that this has absolutely nothing to do with occupation is absurd.
HAMAS is not a static group of guys that have been around for 40 years. They are continuously getting new members and recruits, and guess why people might be driven right into their arms? Maybe you start to hate the people who occupy your land, hold you down as a child and break your legs, and indiscriminately kill civilians and journalists during raids into your home.
Sure it’s a recruitment driver but that doesn’t change the fact that Hamas doesn’t care about Palestinians and is a terrorist organization. Their behavior is inexcusable and the current state of Gaza is a direct result of their violence (against both Palestinians and Israelis). They are not some sort of organization to be defended and right now isn’t the time to try to do that while they are literally killing scores and scores of civilians.
It’s like defending ISIS during one of their worst atrocities because they are Sunni and used Shia on Sunni violence to recruit.
Also if you scroll further in this thread you will see a lot of people celebrating the attacks.
I read the whole thread and didn’t see a single person celebrating these attacks. Where are the “lot of people” you mention?
Maybe your instance is better at banning nazi instances. But here is a screenshot https://i.imgur.com/T9GowBS.png
Note, some of the worst ones I blocked so they aren’t showing up.