Israel Eases Gaza Blockade: Gains for Hamas and Turkey? – TIME

“Giving up on the political strategy of systemically depriving Gaza’s civilian population so that they would turn against Hamas… …was, in fact, part of an anti-Hamas strategy shared by the Western powers. While the Obama Administration had expressed misgivings about the strategy of collective punishment in Gaza, it never demanded a change in the Gaza blockade in the same way that it insisted, for example, that Israel halt settlement construction.”

So sad but so very true that there is a lot of blame to go around.