The protesters are 100% right. I don’t remember us sending an aid to the “civilians” of Nazi Germany.
After the war, there was the Berlin Air Lift, in response to the USSR’s attempt to starve Berlin’s populace to death for revenge. During the war, it’s misplaced compassion, because Hamas just steals it.
But there is the example of El Cid, who conquered a city in Islamic Spain by catapulting bread over the walls, thereby incentivizing the inhabitants to turn on their ruler. Giving them humanitarian aid that Hamas steals is a double-edged swords. Rather than their protectors, they can then be seen as their tormentors, for bringing Israeli firepower on their homes, and at the same time stealing from them and leaving them to starve.
I believe one Hamas police station was burnt to the ground by an angry family whose father was murdered while trying to secure some provisions for them. PLM, you might call it. At some point, they’re liable to turn on Hamas, just as the inhabitants of that Moorish Spanish city turned on their ruler, because it became worth their while.