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The whole world was awakened by Oct. 7: they realized that there were people still under occupation; people who will not settle before the Israeli occupation is ended,
said Mahmoud, who asked not to be identified by his full name Despite all the hardships, our life was going well. We had jobs, houses and a city,
said Samira, 52, who declined to give her family name for fear of retaliation Those remarks result from the pain and nothing more,
he told Reuters, ... adding that For the first time, we see more Gazans wanting the PA, not Hamas, to control Gaza after the war. This is probably the most decisive indicator,
Khalil Shikaki, director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, told Reuters, referring to the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority led by President Mahmoud Abbas What was he thinking? Didn't he expect that Israel would destroy Gaza?"
Inside Gaza, the situation will be different and when people realize that Gaza has become unliveable, the support for Hamas will become less,
What is important is that Palestinians must agree on a new government, with new faces, that will be tasked with administering people's affairs and reconstructing Gaza,
Overall I would say [Hamas is] alive and kicking still and ... will probably come back at some point in Gaza,
said Joost Hiltermann, Middle East and North Africa Program Director of the International Crisis Group From day one, we have ensured the protection and safety of our captives, but Netanyahu's ambitions have prevented their return for a year."
Addressing the hostages captured during the attack in last October, Abu Ubaida stated Palestinian history is made of cycles,
Meshaal, 68, a senior Hamas figure under overall leader Yahya Sinwar, told Reuters in an interview published on Tuesday Although the United States put some efforts (into) increasing some political settlement or political deal between (the) Palestinian resistance group and Israel, in actual sense, it has been supporting Israel in terms of military support, economic support and political support,
The 'sunk cost' of immediately stopping the war is becoming greater day after day for Israel. The Israeli government knows that if the situation goes out of control, the US will be forced to intervene,
The possibility of a full-scale war in the Middle East exists, but the chances have not dramatically increased, as countries involved are all unwilling to see the situation spiral out of control, and they have taken actions from their own interests and perspectives to maintain stability and prevent escalation,
Gong Xiaosheng, a former special envoy of the Chinese government on Middle East issue, told the media in a recent interview We lost part of our ammunition and weapons, but Hamas is still recruiting young men and continues to manufacture a significant portion of its ammunition and weapons,
said Meshaal, without providing details As long as the (Israeli) occupation exists, the region remains a ticking time bomb,
All eyes used to be on Gaza, and now they are on Lebanon. And therefore what's happening in the West Bank goes pretty much under the radar, but it is quite dramatic,
We know from experience, and we know from the specific history of Israel-Lebanon, that they don’t ever intend to stay. They don’t intend to occupy, but that’s what happens,
says Zonszein, the Crisis Group analyst Absent a change of policy in Jerusalem, we are sliding into an open-ended occupation of Gaza,
says Nimrod Novik, a fellow at the Israel Policy Forum and the former foreign policy advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres We’re going to see the West Bank sliding in a Gaza-like direction,
Novik argues, citing, among other factors, rising settler violence and the increasing appeal of armed resistance groups among Palestinian youth, many of whom have no memory of the Second Intifada and embrace the resistance ethos of Hamas From now until Nov. 5, he has more free reign than ever, because he knows that the Biden Administration is certainly not going to do anything before the election,
says Yousef Munayyer, a nonresident fellow at the Arab Center in Washington, D.C., and a longtime observer of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict