Are we not ready to evolve past this tribal thinking?

Unfortunately no, and it's been that way for eons. What makes this stand out among others is there is something to be had. It's always about something to be had, something to be taken away, something that doesn't align with whatever paradigm the powers that be have. There are people who live like what's going on in Gaza every single day of their lives, it just they don't have anything to be taken away, or nothing of value being given to them that matters, like billions of dollars a year from the world banks. You'd think that the Palestinians are the most prosecuted people in the world, but they aren't except for this fleeting moment in time. What makes it's fleeting is there's a beginning, and there will be an end. But for people like the Rohingya's, the most hated people in the world, it never ends. Where ever they go they are targeted and survive by living on muddy hillsides until they are again run out. (They were one of the first stories I did on Steem/Hive, called The Most Persecuted People in the World) They have nothing, they have no land, they have no money, oil, minerals, absolutely zilch, so they aren't worth the world's time. Unlike Gaza, where's there is an invested interested in the outcome the propaganda machine starts to churn.

The same can be said across most of the ME. I can't even describe how depressed I became when I was a moderator on Headline News, a middle eastern news blog where I friended the owner of the blog because he was always on late in the a.m. hours like myself blogging. So he involuntarily made me a moderator. I didn't even really moderate as much as I just posted up articles for people to comment on. Honestly, I didn't want to get in the middle of those messes of arguing, because much like we see going on today, it never ends, it never ends because there are literally dozens upon dozens of different religious ideologies going, sometimes it's over the most minute difference in how they interrupt passages in whatever religious book they subscribe. I know all this because the owner of the blog challenged me to expand my horizons of the media that I read. Like I said, I walked away from that experience so depressed I eventually had to quit the site. Because I realized whether it was something to be had or not, nothing would ever change. For the ME for the most part, once they stop coming together to fight a bigger foe, once it's done, they'd go back to fighting each other, usually over that minute difference in belief. We don't hear about it because these are small tribes of people, dozens and dozen of them that exist in the ME. It's nowhere near like in the US where different religions coincide alongside each other, they kill each other over it. This is why it takes brutal dictators to keep the peace, at times, even that's a struggle. It's another reason they claim since the fall of Saddam, that Iraq can't seem to put itself back together. To many different factions of people who feel prosecuted by the larger factions. This was also why the sticking point when the US tried to tell Israel that once Gaza was cleaned up, there'd be a coalition of Arab states taking over security control. They (Arab states), could technically get away with just shooting people who get out of line, whereas when Israel were to do that, it would make international headlines. Jared Kushner, the idiot that he is, actually makes reference to it in a statement to David Freeman once, he said that Freeman would come into his office and say, "we have to deal with two Israeli stabbings today." He'd tell them, "I told him to stop chasing rabbits, we need to go after the elephants, if you don't solve the underlying cause, none of this goes away." But Israel wasn't having anything to do with it, why would they, who'd want a bigger foe on their border. Back when I started digging deeper, I use to be outside planting flowers, and I'd have this overwhelming guilt complex knowing that children were living in bombed out basements in Syria, or while going shopping, stop and get a sub to eat, looking out over the produce section, seeing all that food stacked neatly so high, how abundant that was, how we take that for granted, meanwhile, people were living on a hillside in mud, washing their laundry in a creek, wondering where their next meal would come from. It could literally drive you crazy, the guilt, and there is nothing you can do about it, and it gets even more hopeless when you consider that even if there was intervention and all the warring stopped, they'd just start killing one another again.
This is why the globalist, and people like Peter Thiel, who is a known authoritarian, feel that the only way to make it stop, is to rule the world by tyranny. Like Elon Musk has openly said, "we have no choice but to kill those who think it's okay to kill innocent civilians", but to your question, how it relates to children, he said, "so that the next generation doesn't grow up to be murders." That's really why it's so ugly, why children are being starved, they firmly believe that they must instill in them, or teach them a lesson, a brutal lesson, that when you are taught as children in falsehoods, they plan to knock those falsehoods right out of them. His exact words were "After seeing the video of Oct 7th attack by Hamas in Israel, one that he commented, "..to watch the video where the murders are rejoicing, celebrating the murder of innocent people is extremely disturbing. So we have to do whatever is necessary to stop the hate. Essentially these people have been fed propaganda since they were children." Musk acknowledged the need to end the proliferation of "falsehoods" on social media platforms, like his own, saying, "And it's remarkable what humans are capable of if they're fed falsehoods from when they are children, they will think that the murder of innocent people is a good thing. That is how propaganda affects people's minds. So you know, I actually did talk with the prime minister, and I think there's three things that need to happen in the Gaza situation. There's no choice but to kill those who insist on murdering innocent civilians. "You are going to change their minds", he added. "But the second thing is to change the education so the new generation of murders is not trained to be murders, and the third thing, which is also very important is to try to build prosperity."

So, as it stands right now, everyone in Gaza, including the children, are basically being considered being in a re-education camp, they are being taught what Musk describes as not growing up believing in falsehoods, it won't be tolerated. You must die to be set as an example.
In this situation though, why it matters so much to them, is because there is something to be had. That is to use Gaza as a major export/import hub to ship energy to a market of four billion people into the backdoor of Europe and Asian countries. It matters so much to Hamas because they won't rule the roast anymore, taking in billions of dollars from world governments and banks. I am sure also, there will be resorts and other types of businesses built into the equation, but will it really bring prosperity to the Palestinian people? Probably just enough to get by on but not real prosperity. I might add though, that with so much at stake by all sides involved, it's really hard to determine who is really shooting at who. Like someone else said the other day, Hamas generally doesn't walk around in uniforms, it makes them a target, which is why it's been hard to remove them, they mix in with the population. They have a lot to lose if, not Israel technically, but the Abraham Accords succeeds, because the AA is dependent upon clearing Gaza. You will figure that out if you go watch the 2017 interview of Jared Kushner with Al Jazeera, "Time To Try Something New", when you are done with that one, watch his interview at Harvard last year, A Middle East Dialogue with Jared Kushner. You'll figure out what Gaza is all about, why those children are being starved like that. Don't be fooled into thinking that the Biden administration wasn't involved in this either, it was, Kushner even said in one of the interviews that they worked with the Biden administration to stay on track of the accords, and what would be more of a coincidence than them naming the operation in the Red Sea, Operation Prosperity Guardian. Yeah, there's prosperity involved, for the globalist and all their millions. I could go on for another hour detailing how Bibi shot down their neutral financial vehicle for investment into Gaza, and three months after he did that, Oct 7th happened, in the Harvard interview Kushner talks about how someone stabbed him in the back to remove him from office, as hard as it is to believe, Bibi and the Palestinian leader didn't want to go along with the AA. They were Trump's persona non grata's setting up the AA at first, and it was a fight until the end, but Trump wasn't having it, nor the globalist, and what's so telling besides the amount of money involved by the Arab states (fifty billion dollars), was people like Bezo's, Musk, Zuckerburg, and others, bought stock options to sell right around the time of the election, they sold millions in stocks and invested them in energy, than when the market fell, they bought back a lot of their stock. That's what this is all about, and they sold it to people, that violent attack on Oct 7th, as a terrorist attack, and the majority of religious people bought into it, been going on for decades, that's what you'll hear them say, and they believe it, and the globalist knew they would, and that's how they are getting away with genocide. Once you educate people though, they often times, have no words, it's really hard for them to come to face the reality that they have been taken so badly, all off the backs of their religious beliefs. That's why it's hard to make any headway, or lead way in getting it to stop, you need to educate people on the true intent involved.