This blockade (and the soldiers enforce against) being on Palestinian land is technically an occupation, but I don’t know why that other guy was so obsessed with the technical difference between blockades and occupations in this one, specific area of Palestine, and it was never my stance that the blockade is the only occupation or that Gaza is the only important occupied Palestinian territory.
It looks like you want to discuss specifically the latest 16 years of occupation in this tiny little area.
So, since 2007, and ignoring the other occupied territories and the gazan blockade, IDF soldiers entered into Palestine to occupy the city in an effort to ostensibly stop Hamas. Israel also occupies the territorial waters and airspace of Gaza and has launched airstrikes against Gaza. In 2010, is real attack sex civilian ships in Palestinian territorial waters, in 2012, IDF soldiers in Palestine shot some fisherman on gazan land, and it goes on and on.
So ignoring the blockade, there’s an overwhelming military presence by IDF(the Israeli military) regularly occupying the land, sea and air inside and around Gaza.
Let’s talk about Egypt.
Egypt is not as dependent on or cozied up to the US as israel is, so they don’t have the same interest in attacking or occupying Palestine that israel does.
Right now, while Israel is refusing food, water and fuel to Palestine because Israelis believe Palestinians are animals who need to be punished, Egypt is preparing an aid package.
So if you’re wondering why the outrage against Egypt is less than that against Israel, it’s because Egypt does not display the historied animosity toward or undeniable occupation of Palestine that Israel shows.
Those aren’t Egyptian settlers forcing Palestinians off their land. Those aren’t Egyptian soldiers blowing up hospitals and schools every year. The colonizers are Israeli and the attacks on hospitals and schools are perpetrated by Israeli soldiers.
Your last question is about a less invasive measure to ensure regional security.
Stay out of Palestinian territories. Stop actively settling on Palestinian land. Don’t publicly announce that Palestinian land is actually Israeli land and then broadcast a map that erases Palestine from the map. Definitely stop bombing the schools and hospitals, and shoot less civilians, since I think the Palestinians consider those illegal settlements and civilian bombings and murders on their land pretty invasive (me too).