Agree with the first (no justification), not with the second.

I have noted multiple times that a certain portion of any population are sociopaths/psychopaths. That is around 2% IIRC.

The vast majority of people are shaped by their environment. If you grow up in a concentration camp, knowing you never have much chance for a future, that is going to affect you. If you protest to close to the walls, you'll be shot. If you somehow break out, you'll be hunted down and killed. Every hour of every day there are armed drones circling over head.

These are not hypotheticals, this was everyday life for the people of Gaza pre-7 October. When someone breaks out a concentration camp they've lived in for their entire life, they are going to do some horrible shit.

That is not justification for war crimes, it is empathy for the poor souls - average age 15 - who have spent their whole lives under barely imaginable conditions. That is what I surely understand.

Finally, it was not 1400 people. It was 1000, according to Israel. 50% of those people were IDF or police, who are legitimate targets of the people being occupied. How many of the rest were killed by IDF, we will probably never know.

Hamas has softened - for the 3rd time - because they have changed their charter. I can't help you if you refuse to read what I write, and instead ascribe to me words that I didn't write.... apropos strawman and again, projection.