[breppp]

Your comment talks about occupation in Gaza and then switches to Palestine, if you reread what I said above, I agree the west bank is mostly occupied (Area A isn't). What I am talking about is Gaza.

Your appeal to authority does not matter as this is a matter that was not never resolved in courts, and the reasons Israel has withdrawn in the first place was due to international support, which also included the western countries you mention.

Generally, Anyone who can read the definition of occupation in both international law and English knows it will be very hard to prove what went in Gaza previous to the war was occupation.

The fact that this, similar to other axioms in the conflict are considered truism while no one stops to thinks on whether they even make sense, is a good example of prejudices at play.

Another recent example, the UN having to redefine famine in order to declare famine in Gaza. Do you see the pattern?

[cherry_tree]

Is Ukraine occupied by Russian troops or no?

[breppp]

Russian troops are currently and since 2014 inside land internationally recognized as part of Ukraine.

In 2005-2023, which is the time I was talking about:

1. Israeli troops were not anywhere inside Gaza

2. There was Hamas, a force that actually controlled Gaza, with its police, army, hospitals, schools, public servants and tendency to shoot opposing Palestinians in the knees