Shany, when Israel finally admits that it is planning to violently annex Northern Gaza, and the West Bank, which it has illegally settled with 700,000 plus people, then the sheer dark mendacity of your statement may see the light of logic:

"We can argue about the reasons for the occupation and its continuation, but at the end of the day, we all simply want to live."

Ain't nothing simple about what Israel sees as 'wanting to live'.