You make it sound like the people of Gaza have no agency

Correct. That is the physical reality. They have no food, no housing, no medical care, and they keep getting blown the fuck up. If they had any agency over their situation, the first thing they'd do with it is put a stop to any of that. They don't.

that they're mindless pawns with predestined outcomes

Not what I said at all. You need to reread, among other things, the first sentence of my comment.

Where do you start making people responsible for their own decisions?

Decisions?

I think I'm done with this conversation.