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The pronoun "They" in the citation: "Indeed, Madam Congresswoman. We have to draw a line... They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world."[309] , refers to Hamas, not to the Gaza population. It is obvious in the source, not in the article. 85.201.188.118 (talk) 05:31, 14 January 2025 (UTC) Era[reply]
I disagree with your interpretation. The actions of the Israeli government, which Human Rights Watch found sufficient basis in which to form their genocide accusation, involved cutting off water to a population sufficient to cause mass death, suffering, pain, disease, and misery. Add some common sense: were they planning to give water and batteries to the civilians of Gaza but not Hamas? entropyandvodka | talk11:32, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
When reading the full citation, I find it more likely that Katz refers to Hamas than to the Gaza population, just as 85.201.188.118 says. The actions of the Israeli government that entropyandvodka refers to is not relevant, because it is not up to us to conclude who is meant by "they". I made the citation much longer, so that every reader can decide for themselves. Lova Falk (talk) 10:10, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Reading the longer quotation, it's still completely ambiguous (grammatically speaking, it's actually more likely that "they" refers to the last mentioned referent, "[a]ll the civilian population in [G]aza"), and possibly even deliberately phrased that way. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 23:19, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also note that Katz himself refers to Hamas using the pronoun "it", not "they", which (in addition to entropyandvodka's argument) further complicates the assumption that "they" later should refer to Hamas as well. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 23:21, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That said, it's also very much possible that, ironically just as Israel's defenders often accuse Israel's critics of conflating Israel and Jews, Katz (much like, apparently, Herzog, mentioned immediately before) doesn't think of Hamas and the Palestinians of Gaza as fully distinct groups, not least given that support for Hamas among Gazans is still high. (Incidentally, support for Israel is still high among Jews, though far from universal, and declining especially in young American Jews.) --Florian Blaschke (talk) 23:44, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
