Tensions flare between Hamas, Fatah less than a month after Palestinian unity talks

Prof. Kobi Michael: Hamas isn’t allowing PA representatives to continue cooperating with international aid organizations to help the people of Gaza, to be better prepared for the winter, as an act of retaliation for the arrests of Hamas-affiliated individuals in the West Bank and out of fear that Fatah will be able to build a base for itself in the Gaza Strip.

Such a base would weaken Hamas and facilitate its disarmament and decomposition.

Hamas has no regret or sorrow regarding its own people, and it is willing to sacrifice its people and to make their life more difficult towards the coming winter to serve its survival and political existence as well as preparation towards another starvation and humanitarian crisis campaign that the international media and community will eat with a great appetite. This is another form or version of using civilians as human shields, and the world probably will continue blaming Israel.

Published in The Jerusalem Post, November 10,  2026

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