You are lying. Hamas absolutely could improve the lot of its people. Use all the materials it gets to make weapons to make water instead. Hamas chooses poverty. And if Hamas were to stop making weapons and attacking, Israel would lift the blockade. What Israel's demanding is absolutely reasonable: Stop attacking me, and I'll stop blockading you. Israel already shut down settlements in 2005 and pulled out in a gesture of goodwill, and the blockade didn't start immediately. Hamas could have chosen peace, but it didn't. Rather than reciprocate Israel's goodwill gesture in 2005, Hamas ramped up attacks.