[nico]

> take water pipes sent as aid - which were allowed to be imported - dig them up and turn them into rockets

This is not true. They did dig up pipes to make rockets, but they were the pipes from Israeli settlements. Settlements that Israel destroyed so Palestinians couldn’t inhabit them

> What do you think they'd do if they were able to import more freely?

Be more at peace, feel like they matter, like the world cares about them and that they can be a part of it without having to ask for permission from Israel

If anything, the end of the blockade would probably bring more peace and stability to everyone in the region

[nvm0n2]

I read that the pipes they dug up were sent as EU aid, which if true would mean they didn't (all) come from old settlements.

> Be more at peace

We have fundamentally different interpretations of what happened in October, and the dancing in the Gazan streets that accompanied it.