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Plenty of people sympathize with the Palestinians even after they voted for Hamas

Vast majority of Gaza residents have never had the chance to vote for anyone. The last elections were 2006, vast majority are under aged 35 and thus too young to vote in 2006.

To be more precise, roughly half of the population of Gaza is under the age of 15.

Also: https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/alerts-archive/issue...

> Between 8 December 2023 and 7 February 2024, the entire population in the Gaza Strip (about 2.2 million people) is classified in IPC Phase 3 or above (Crisis or worse). This is the highest share of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity that the IPC initiative has ever classified for any given area or country.

But sure, let's leave it at "they voted for Hamas" -- when "Hamas is using them as shield, so..." doesn't cut it, that is.

Even then during those elections there was only around 1/3 turnout

Not at all the same situation. Although imperfect, the UK has an actual functioning democracy while Palestine is an impoverished, semi-autonomous, largely refugee state partially controlled by Israel.

This video explains how the Palestinians voted for Hamas in theory but not in practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ9PKQbkJv8

Not quite. Hamas rules the Gaza strip only and even this isn't 100% grass roots. They used to get strong backing from Israel:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...

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