Bullshit. They chose the Oslo Accords and a two-state solution, where they only got 22% of the land. They compromised and agreed to recognize Israel as a legitimate state, and they would take the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. What did the Zionists do? They killed Isaac Rabin, their Prime Minister, who accepted the agreement and they increased the spread of Jewish settlements in the West Bank stealing more land, and homes, and completely isolating the Palestinians. Palestinians can't protest peacefully, because the Zionists don't let them. Every attempt to protest peacefully, without violence, leads to dead Palestinians. Palestinians are detained and incarceted without charges. They call it "administrative detention". Thousands of Palestinians are now in Zionist prisons, in limbo. Palestinians comprise more than half of the population of the holy land and they are dehumanized and even murdered by the Israelis.
Hamas was a more militant party and group, offering social services to the Palestinians because the Israelis refused to do that. Hamas won the election in 2006, not on the basis of violently attacking Israel but providing social services to the Palestinians in Gaza and getting rid of corruption. They didn't start firing their homemade rockets at their Israeli occupiers until Israel imposed an economic blockade on Gaza, shortly after they won the election in 2006, The fact that Hamas was democratically elected in 2006, doesn't give the occupying force, "Israel", the right to impose a brutal economic blockage and engage in genocidal violence. It's the Zionist State that is the occupier.
Half of the Gazans today weren't even alive in 2006, and they are now being deprived of water and electricity, and essentially murdered. This is genocide. Ethnic cleansing.