As the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into force, perhaps Gazans thought they might finally get some brief moment of peace. If so, they were wrong. Almost as soon as the IDF withdrew to the new Yellow Line inside Gaza, the bullets started flying and Palestinians were once again being killed: but this time, it was Hamas pulling the trigger. Their first target: the Doghmush clan.

Until it took power in a coup in 2007, Hamas was essentially just the biggest armed gang in Gaza, and it hasn’t forgotten this

Like every society, Palestinian society has its faultlines that divide its people into different smaller groups. There’s politics: Hamas, Fatah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and so on. There’s faith: religious vs secular, Muslim and Christian. Another faultli

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