I will never understand how people use 7th October as a benchmark for the conflict, but somehow ignore not only the decades of oppression before hand, but the fact that palestinians had one of their deadliest years in recent times during January 2023 to September 2023, many fatalities of which were in the west bank, where there is no hamas and israel are committing unspeakable war crimes there. To ignore all of that just to acknowledge the 1 attack on israel on the 7th October shows as a humanity we are capable of any atrocity, no matter how progressive things seem.