The occupation is way older than Hamas, rich.
Israel is also doing this to the West Bank, away from Hamas.
What occupation?
You'd be happy with Israel giving up more land when Egypt invaded?
On 15 May 1948, the civil war transformed into a conflict between Israel and the Arab states following the
Israeli Declaration of Independence the previous day. Egypt, Transjordan,
Syria, and expeditionary forces from Iraq entered Palestine.
[16][17][18][19] The invading forces took control of the Arab areas and immediately attacked Israeli forces and several Jewish settlements.
[20][21][22] The 10 months of fighting took place mostly on the territory of the British Mandate and in the
Sinai Peninsula and
southern Lebanon, interrupted by several truce periods.
[23]
As a result of the war, the State of Israel controlled the area that the UN had proposed for the Jewish state, as well as almost 60% of the area proposed for the Arab state,
[24] including the
Jaffa,
Lydda and
Ramle area,
Upper Galilee, some parts of the
Negev and a wide strip along the
Tel Aviv–
Jerusalem road. Israel also took control of
West Jerusalem, which was meant to be part of an international zone for Jerusalem and its environs. Transjordan took control of
East Jerusalem and what became known as the
West Bank,
annexing it the following year, and the Egyptian military
took control of the Gaza Strip. At the
Jericho Conference on 1 December 1948, 2,000 Palestinian delegates called for unification of Palestine and Transjordan as a step toward full Arab unity.
[25] The conflict triggered significant demographic change throughout the Middle East. Around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs
fled or were expelled from their homes in the area that became Israel, and they became
Palestinian refugees[26] in what they refer to as the
Nakba ("the catastrophe"). A similar number of Jews moved to Israel during the three years following the war, including
260,000 from the surrounding Arab states.
[27][28]