You have to realise that there has been a siege and a blockade of Gaza for decades, and the majprity of those Palestinians who breached the walls of Gaza found themselves outside of Gaza for the first time in their lives. They have no idea what an Israeli looks like. They could only assume that the people on the other side of their prison wall were their enemy, their jailers, their oppressors. And what is an Israeli anyway? The Defense Minister is from Poland, as was Netanyahu's father. 250,000 – 300,000 Israelis are holding dual citizenship with the US living in Israel.