Hamas Attack on Israel

Not sure what is Hamas, according to Wikipedia, Hamas is a Palestinian political and terrorist organization that currently governs the Gaza Strip.

But I know Israel and Palestine have been fighting for a long time, it's usually some small conflicts at the border or shooting some rockets into Israel, but this time it seems to be on a larger scale where Hamas actually invaded Israel, killed and took civilian hostages, hard to believe until I saw the videos.

As expected Israel retaliated with heavy bombardment of the Gaza Strip, I thought for Hamas to attack Israel they must be very confident of certain victory, but doesn't seem to be the case, Israel even ordered a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, meaning no food, water, medicine, fuel and electricity, I wonder how Hamas is going to work around that.

Israel also activated 300,000 reserve personnel, I don't think they need so much troops just for defense since their active personnel is 165,000 according to Wikipedia, so it sounds like they are going to invade Gaza Strip. Not sure how it will turn out but Israel is clearly way superior in terms of military strength and technology, Hamas is most likely going to get crushed if no other country step in to help them.

Doesn't make any sense at all, why would Hamas start a fight that they cannot win? Just the total blockade alone will destroy them, how are they going to fight without food and water?


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