Scepticism grows over Israel’s ability to dismantle Hamas
Even degrading its military capabilities is going to be a formidable slog.
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Since it first emerged in 1987, Hamas has survived repeated attempts to eliminate its leadership.
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Neil MacFarquhar
Standing before a grey backdrop decorated with Hamas logos and emblems of a gunman that commemorate the bloody Oct 7 attack on Israel, Mr Osama Hamdan, the organisation’s representative in Lebanon, professed no concern about his Palestinian faction being dislodged from Gaza.
“We are not worried about the future of the Gaza Strip,” he recently told a crowded news conference in his offices in Beirut’s southern suburbs. “The decision-maker is the Palestinian people alone.”