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@npub13aew...c6pp keeps asking "should Hamas have power after this?"
My answer as a Gazan is: they should NOT. All Palestinian militant groups should be dismantled &/or integrated into a national army IN TANDEM WITH Israel ending the occupation.
That's literally what Israel did to its terrorist militias Igrun & Lehi after establishing a state. They became the IDF. Their terrorist leaders like Shamir & Begin, once most wanted in the UK, became Israeli Prime Ministers.
Demanding unrequited disarmament as a prerequisite to peace isn't how conflict resolution works. E.g. Think of the decommissioning of Ireland's IRA. It took 7 years AFTER the Good Friday agreement not before.
Even if Hamas magically disappears tonight, as long as an Israeli system of apartheid is in place, many new armed groups will emerge who will stem their domestic legitimacy from pointing out how Israel refuses to end the occupation peacefully; refuses a Palestinian state; punishes non-violence with lethal force; & labels Palestinian diplomacy, advocacy or resort to international courts as "terrorism".
On the other hand, Hamas will NOT govern Gaza on the day after. They've been recently having discussions in Cairo & Doha about handing over government responsibilities in Gaza either to a Palestinian Authority's national unity government or an independent technocratic committee until its possible to hold elections.
Netanyahu has been vetoing & preventing the return of the Palestinian Authority to govern Gaza.
Last time we were about to have national elections in 2021, Netanyahu sabotaged it by arresting candidates across the West Bank; sending his Shin Bet chief to President Abbas to pressure him to cancel the elections; & preventing holding any elections in occupied East Jerusalem.
