Hamas’s Qassam Brigades has threatened to execute Israeli captives if Israel continues to bombard and kill civilians in Gaza.
“Any targeting of innocent civilians without warning will be met regretfully by executing one of the captives in our custody, and we will be forced to broadcast this execution,” said Abu Obeida, a spokesman for Hamas’ Qassam Brigades.
“We regret this decision but we hold the Zionist enemy and their leadership the responsibility for this,” he said.
Since colonization, before colonization they were a country called Palestine.
Here's a map from 1400 showing Palestine.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine#/media/File%3APresent-Day_Palestine_and_the_Holy_Land_-_1400s.png
There's gotta be some limit how far to the history we should be looking at when deciding who gets to live where.
Israeli were expelled in like 500ad, the nearest claim would be pre ottoman Syria which was Palestine.