From what I understand, the army has mostly left Gaza. That means that they are mostly not fighting. Why? I don’t know, I guess they have a cheshbon why in the long run it’s better if there is a break in the fighting. Same goes for Bein Hazmanim. Get it? It just don’t work uddawise.
And besides, your average bochur is learning everyday for multiple hours, and many Yungerleit are learning for the majority of the day, just in a more relaxed setting.
Also, many people seem to think that learning Torah is basically sitting in a chair reading all day, and you don’t even have to read the whole time because your chavrusa reads for half the time, you can just sit and listen! Let me tell you, you have no idea what learning is. When I was in Oorah, I remember the guys in the college aged program coming out of the bais medrash after just an hour of serious learning and talking among themselves about how their energy was completely sapped and there is no way they could do that full time. The amount of thinking being done straight for long periods of time is not comparable to almost anything in the world.
Not that I’m comparing the hardship of learning to facing and risking death in a Hamas tunnel, but don’t think chareidim are a bunch of couch potatoes.
And for the complaints about Chareidi messaging; well I’m sorry, but we just don’t have anything better to say than that Torah protects everybody in a real and serious way. If someone doesn’t understand that, “ein hachah nami”, there is nothing for us to say. That’s what our fathers passed down through the generations, going all the way back to Sinai. If you don’t believe in our Mesorah then you are plain and simple lost. A gutten tog.