While some Israelis call to flatten Gaza — and Hamas celebrates its new political standing — ordinary Palestinians are preparing for life to turn from bad to much, much worse
was an average day in the chaotic, fractured, and forcibly segregated Israeli-and-Palestinian new normal. The next day, Israeli and Palestinian society transformed in hours as Hamas led aSince Saturday morning, at least 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, have been killed in an assault that has caused Israel more casualties than the country experienced during the entire five years of the Second Intifada that raged nearly 20 years ago.
As he speaks, Rajoub struggles to pump out water from his living room that had just flooded in during a storm; he eyes his kids running around the building’s heavy metal-gated entrance way. They play loudly, as if trying to block out the sounds of death from above. One of the few Gazans who have managed to leave the strip, Abdalla was living in Chile for the past few years, only returning to the confines of his homeland to care for his ill mother. In his previous Gaza life, fluency in English landed him a job at the Hamas-run government press office. However, unmarried and not a party member, he says he didn’t fit in. He has tried to make a career as a graphic designer, but, like more than 60 percent of Gaza, he struggles with unemployment.
For Hamas, this brazen attack is the ultimate roll of the dice, one that appears based on preserving the idea of the movement even if war wrestles away its limited control. Its claim to the leadership of Palestinian armed struggle had been waning over the last year and a half. And in Ramallah, the hilltop seat of limited power for the Western-backed Palestinian security forces run by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ secular nationalist Fatah movement, hundreds marched, carrying Hamas’ flags through the city center. Since then, the restrictions dividing the West Bank for Palestinians have only tightened, leaving them stranded where they were on Saturday while taking in Gazan workers from Israel seeking refuge.
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