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The tighter the Israeli and Egyptian control over Gaza’s borders—the more Hamas (and other groups) developed military means to fight back. Karim von Hippel, director of the London-based Royal United Services Institute, says “they may have been planning this for years and thinking through what they can do, because everything else they have tried, hasn’t worked”. “But certainly this is not going to work either. I think this will spell the end of Hamas.”

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