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Hamas has done nothing to improve the plight of their people, on the contrary they keep them in misery with their extremist policies.
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Is Hamas only a terrorist group?
No. In addition to its military wing, the so-called Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigade, Hamas devotes much of its estimated $70-million annual budget to an extensive social services network. Indeed, the extensive social and political work done by Hamas - and its reputation among Palestinians as averse to corruption - partly explain its defeat of the Fatah old guard in the 2006 legislative vote. Hamas funds schools, orphanages, mosques, healthcare clinics, soup kitchens, and sports leagues. "Approximately 90 percent of its work is in social, welfare, cultural, and educational activities," writes the Israeli scholar Reuven Paz. The Palestinian Authority often fails to provide such services, and Hamas's efforts in this area—as well as a reputation for honesty, in contrast to the many Fatah officials accused of corruption—help to explain the broad popularity it summoned to defeat Fatah in the PA's recent elections.
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Hamas - Council on Foreign Relations
This helps explain why Hamas became popular enough to get elected. People seem to only know about Hamas' militant aspect.
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Do you know how many countries ship in truckloads of humanitarian aid into Gaza on a daily basis? One: Israel.
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Yes, and this is because of Israel, as is obvious, and it's down to 100 truckloads a day (with an item variety of only 74), compared to well over a dozen times that before the siege.
Do you deny that Gaza is facing a humanitarian crisis?
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