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Thanks, good faith anon. I'll address your post part by part and greentext the paragraph I'm addressing in order to save space.
>paragraph 1
I feel like you're describing a commonly framed Israeli security narrative. Israel never left Gaza unoccupied, not even after 2005. The misconception spawns from the erroneous assumption that ''withdrawing your troops from the area = ending the occupation'', which is legally false. Israel DID dismantle settlements and pull permanent military presence out of Gaza, but they simply recolated it around Gaza's periphery. They control what goes in, what goes out, together with who goes in and out.
They control Gaza's borders, airspace, population registry, fishing zones, ICT infrastructure, electricity, imports and exports, trade, ... The Rafah crossing with Egypt was de facto ALSO controlled by Israel, as they had the final say.
Not a single respectable international legal body says that (and now we are talking purely for the period 2005-2023)
I) Israel isn't occupying Gaza
II) Israel's occupation of Gaza is legal
So under international law, Israel remained the occupying power.
About Hamas, well... you need to consider that they did not come out of nowhere. Hamas had been a movements for decades prior to 2005 and gained support partly because of the corruption and ineffectiveness in Fatah (which rules the WB).
After winning the 2006 elections (which by president Jimmy Carter's words were fair), Israel refused to recognise Hamas' government and imposed sanctions.
I somehow doubt such a party could have come to power had Israel decided to respect international law with regards to the Gaza strip, which leads me to address:
>''Israel fears another Gaza in the West Bank''
Israel has massively, and I mean massively expanded settlements (illegal under international law) in the West Bank since 2005. They tightened control, doubled down on their occupation and apartheid and fragmented what's left of the West Bank into poorly connected bantustans. If you count the West Bank and East Jerusalem together, there's some 700 000 settlers illegally occupying these areas and they enjoy Israel's support in every thinkable way. I'm not looking for a gotcha, but if security was the goal, why would you move hundreds of thousands of your citizens into occupied territories? I believe the ''security fear'' is a thinly veiled territorial project. The fact the West Bank is purposefully fragmented emboldens that idea.
Pointing to Gaza as evidence that Palestinians cannot govern themselves ignores that Israel has systematically prevented both Gaza and the West Bank from developing into viable, sovereign institutions. There's Israeli politicians whose platform is basically preventing that from ever happening, and they get more than enough votes. All of this is about entrenching permanent control.