Some Gazans want Hamas to keep fighting

ToI’s Avi Issacharoff reports that Gazans are torn between wanting the fighting to resume, and desperately seeking quiet.

He writes: “Gaza, like the cities of Israel, is slowly returning to normal. Kind of.

“There are cars on its roads once more, and shoppers are flooding its markets. “We became accustomed very quickly to war – and even faster to peace,” Sameh, a prominent political analyst in Gaza, told The Times of Israel Wednesday.

“But the quiet, he said, is deceptive. “It’s not over yet. Hamas is under a lot of pressure to return to fighting if Egypt and Israel don’t allow the blockade to be lifted,” Sameh said.

“The residents of the Gaza Strip are torn between wanting the fighting to go on and wanting it to stop, he added.”

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