I can relate. My case was not a life and death situation like yours, but was a 10+ year legal battle that involved the national press. It was horrible. Maybe that is also why I can empathize with the Palestinians so easily.

Yes, 7 October was horrible. Yes, Hamas is horrible. None of that excuses the 25,000 (probably over 30,000) dead Palestinians since 7 October, and the hundreds of thousands of dead Palestinians since 1948.