"From an outside observer's perspective"
And that is the problem- being an outsider informed by biased and incomplete media.
Gaza invaded Israel, and lost. If you start a war and lose, you lose. Israel could have vaporized the entirety of Gaza- but didn't. Why? Thats not Israeli culture. the Arabs, Christians, Jews, Druze etc of Israel simply want to go about their lives... they dont want to be having to shut down tens of thousands of rockets and invasion from Gaza.
Rather than simply vaporizing the whole place, they pinpoint target rocket launchers- slashdot can't post pictures and videos here but you can see vast numbers of published video examples directly from the IDF on how they do this. I know hundreds of people called in to work these types of responses.
Gaza's goal is to commit suicide to gain sympathy- no one is falling for it.
The slave armies of Islam are no match for the free people of Israel... they attacked, they lost, their people suffer.
Pro tip: don't attack Israel.