The missing part here, now, is Hamas. From the (original) Taliban to ISIS to Ansar Allah, examples abound of fundamentalists being willing to inflict as many atrocities as necessary on a population to gain control of it. Indeed, now that the Taliban have very slightly moderated their position, they are now targeted by IS!

I agree in the long run that Netanyahu's government has yielded tragic results for Palestinians and Israelis alike, but there at least there's a hope for a change.

What about Hamas?

Isn't it too inhumane to starve Gaza of everything that Hamas could use to make weapons? But lacking that starvation, wouldn't Hamas make weapons first and allow the needs of people to be met second, like they have been for the past decade? They're already busy jeopardizing the very very limited aid across the Rafa border by smuggling themselves out and equipment in.

If Israel respected the West Bank territories and gave Gaza an example of a working two-state solution that they just had to opt into, instead of the current "well we don't have a formal agreement so we're going to keep expanding settlements", maybe in time support for Hamas could erode, or Hamas would moderate itself. But it seems like a dim long-term hope for what is a pressing, current problem.