No, it doesn't. No action Hamas can take can force Israel to commit genocide. Israel has agency and has chosen to do these things as a nation.

And Hamas lacks agency?

Again, Hamas is irrelevant. They cannot make Israel break international law and humanitarian law. Only Israel can do that.

Fully acknowledged. The original post had to do with Israeli accusations about hostage mistreatment which likely was false. My observation is well treated or not, abduction is an evil act.

And not a war crime. Arrest of civilians or military is an accepted aspect of war and has been since the formalization of war in the Bronze Age. Unlike the rape of prisoners or the intentional targeting of children or journalists, which are now crimes. Which Hamas cannot force Israel to do.

Hamas is only liable for the actions of Hamas and its representatives. Israel is liable for its actions and representatives. It is not Hamas' fault that Israel has a large number of children in prison without charges. Or that journalists are murdered without impunity. Only Israel is

And Hamas killed a thousand civilians and took hundreds hostage on a single day. Do you acknowledge their liability?

Not for Israeli actions. Hamas is only liable for its own actions and their actions are not illegal in either war or violent resistance, which ever you want to define their existence under. The morality of an action is not related to the ethicality or legality of an action.

Not in any way?

No. Morality is not related to ethics and even a casual student of moral and ethical philosophy would know this. Morality is about what is right, ethics is about what is fair. Eye for an eye isn't moral but it is ethical. Killing a defenseless man who terrorizes you isn't ethical but can be moral.

Sorry, no, Hamas did not kill 1000 civilians on a single day.

The IDF kills an *average* of 250 civilians a day though. It is impossible to defend the actions of Israel and be a moral person. Completely impossible.

I’m not defending IDF atrocities. I condemn them. Do the same for those of Hamas.

You are maintaining that the civilians captured on October seventh were “arrested”? Their abduction was lawful detainment?

If we're going to call this a war, yes. The arrests took place on contested ground as part of an illegal occupation. If it's not a war then it's desperate reaching for any leverage to prevent an ongoing oppressive occupation, which is also not illegal.

You are an evil person, an endorser of monstrous action, as long as the banner of Hamas is waved. Don’t respond to my posts anymore.

You're the one defending the murder of children, I'm only pointing out that war is hell and we allow it. You're hiding from your own debased morality in fear of what it means. You're more willing to kill Arab children than admit Israel has done evil, and gleefully

Nope.