in the west bank who are physically separated from them,h palestinians in jerusalem who em are separated from them, and palestinians inside israel who have israeli citizenship, and that put pressure on israel in e way that was different and w unique, and that is important an for the people of gaza. and that is important for hamas as a political party to try and claim leadership of the y palestinian cause. and on the israeli side, there are reasons why israel wouldn te want to continue this. one, the idea that 20% of its co population, the palestinian citizens were getting more and w more involved in this. that was something that israel was very uncomfortable with. we saw inter-israeli mob violence start to emerge during this. that never happened in the past where you had israeli-arabs and israeli-jews fighting each other on the streets. ps throwing fire bombs at each other s homes. that is a very unsettling and dangerous dynamic that prime minister netanyahu repeatedly addressed and se