Hamas reasserts control on streets of Gaza, turning guns on its Palestinian rivals

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The militia began receiving weapons, aid and "intelligence from drones" from the Israelis this year and now boasts 2,000 men, Mazen said.
54% : Hamas may have stopped fighting Israel, but it has launched a new, violent campaign to reassert control over local families and militias that had challenged its power during the past two years of war - including those who, according to the leaders of two clans, had received support from Israel.
53% : "Hamas could maneuver on this issue and say, 'We are present, we are indispensable for imposing control.'
53% : Some militia leaders predict that, after Hamas subdues the Doghmush and Mujaida families in central Gaza and Gaza City - Hamas's only current base of power - it will quickly move to establish control over the northern and southern ends of the strip and attack militias that were propped up by Israel.
50% : With Israel largely restrained from attacking Hamas under the ceasefire sponsored by Trump, the group is again ruling the streets, controlling what is left of civil administration and gaining leverage in the upcoming negotiations over whether and how it will disarm and who will rule Gaza.
50% : On Monday, Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he would allow Hamas to govern in the interim and said Tuesday that he was "not bothered" by the group's reprisal attacks.
50% : "They did take out a couple of gangs that were very bad," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
47% : The "Sahem," or piercing arrow, a special unit that Hamas formed during the war to crack down on armed groups engaged in looting aid and price gouging, claimed credit for the attack.
43% : Whether by carrying out armed raids in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip or holding public executions farther north in Gaza City, Hamas is trying to send a clear message that, after months of hiding from Israeli fire, the militant group is back as the only visible authority inside the Gaza Strip, according to rival militia leaders, Palestinian officials and political analysts.

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