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There is no future of peace, stability and security for both sides if Hamas stays in power in the Gaza Strip,
Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Sunday
Israel has a choice, to continue fighting in the future and killing people - and that hasn't worked in the past 15 months - or it can allow an arrangement where the Palestinian Authority takes control with Hamas' acquiescence,
Hiltermann saidHamas is an idea and you can't kill an idea,
Abu Rezik said, predicting the group would rebuild
We had homes and hotels and restaurants. We had a life. Today we have nothing, so what kind of a victory is this
said Ameen, 30, a Gaza City civil engineer, displaced in Khan YounisNobody is talking about the PA taking over Gaza without Hamas' consent."
Hiltermann said, but it remains by far the dominant armed group in GazaName me one country that could withstand Israel's war-machine for 15 months,
said Salah Abu Rezik, a 58-year-old factory workerWe want to prevent any kind of security vacuum,
said Ismail Al-Thawabta, director of the Hamas-run Gaza government media officeAs long as they are behind the scenes, handling matters, they don't care that there will be a committee as a front,
he saidCurrently, we have 18,000 employees working daily to provide services to citizens,
he said
National security will suffer unless all of the women and men being held captive return home,
wrote veteran commentator Ron Ben-Yishai in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper on Monday, reflecting a majority Israeli view based on opinion polls
The Hamas presence on the ground armed is a slap in the face to the Israeli government and army,
Gershon Baskin, a former Israeli hostage negotiator who is now Middle East director for International Communities Organization, told the Journal
I have not seen policemen or bulldozers clearing roads.” ... Everything is the same and we are still afraid.”
Nevine Hamada, an unemployed mother of six whose husband was killed in the war, said ... Standing in a breadline at a bakery in Gaza City, she added
The message is that Hamas is 'the day after' for the war,
Ibrahim Madhoun, an analyst close to Hamas based in Turkey, told The New York Times_(cropped).jpg)
Gaza is destroyed, but Hamas is still on its feet,
said Avi Issacharoff, an Israeli Middle East analyst and co-creator of the television show FaudaHamas has not ended despite its military losses,
said Mkhaimar Abusada, a political scientist from Gaza at Northwestern University in the USWe are working according to an emergency plan,
said Ismail al-Thawabta, a spokesperson for Gaza’s Hamas-controlled governmentThe way the hostages were handed over was a display of force and an act of defiance towards Israel,
he saidWe need Hamas during this phase to control security but we don’t want them to govern and we don’t want to hear the word resistance,
she saidThe house was razed to the ground; everything was reduced to rubble,
he said
One of the reasons Hamas was able to build its weapons capabilities was fundamentally because Iran was supplying it to them. That's going to be harder today,
said Panikoff