Four-and-a-half months after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared war on Hamas, the terror group has yet to be destroyed.
While badly damaged, with a significant portion of its fighting force dead or wounded, Hamas still appears to have the ability to function as a coherent organization, and would likely be able to reassert control over the Gaza Strip if Israel left.
Hamas fighters are still able to mount attacks in parts of Gaza that Israel conquered in the initial stage of the incursion, and its operatives pop up in the northern Strip to make sure it gets whatever it wants from aid trucks.
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Lazar Berman is the Times of Israel‘s diplomatic reporter and a Middle East Forum Writing Fellow.
