Hamas has violently sought to reassert its authority over the Gaza Strip in the wake of the Israel military’s partial withdrawal, but questions remain over the group’s future and efforts to rebuild.

Since the ceasefire came into effect a week ago, the militant group has deployed armed police officers on streets from where Israeli forces have withdrawn, clashed with rival clans, directly fired upon and killed Israeli troops in multiple incidents, and staged at least one public execution of suspected collaborators.

As Hamas continues to demonstrate its presence, Israeli security officials and experts on Gaza agree it has been badly diminished but not thoroughly destroyed, and will count with new recruits propelled to join after tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians were killed by Israeli fire.

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      Israel created Hamas. And while doing it they asserted that it must be religious. When are you going to do the math. Netenyahu has said for decades that Palestine is never going to become a state. Its never been about “democratic” and it never was for netenyahu. Pretending it was is just lying and pushing racist war criminal propoganda. I dont know how you sleep at night or hold your head up without shame.

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      As long as Israel continues their expansion and genocide Hamas will never go anywhere.