FLASH
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The Al-Shati refugee camp, "the beach" in Arabic, is so called because the gray concrete houses overlook the seashore. What should be the main entrance road, is an always muddy alley that leads to the building where Ismail Haniyeh lived.
Iron bars prevent you from going there, even though the head of Hamas has been living in Qatar for several years. He took over the position held by Khaled Meshal, and he tries to control the sometimes conflicting dynamic between leaders inside the Strip and those outside in Doha.
His father, a fisherman, was born on the beach 61 years ago. After the battles of the first intifada and prison, he became an assistant to Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, killed by the Israelis in March 2004. At that point, the heads of the organization form a clandestine triumvirate, and Haniyeh is the first name on the list that the Islamists put up for to take over the government of Gaza. He won and now Haniyeh is the head of the government in Gaza, while the Palestinian Authority is headed by Abu Mazen.
Abu Mazen is unable to convince him to recognize the agreements made with Israel, be it the Oslo peace accords or the recognition of the Jewish state.
The president denied it in 2007 because paramilitaries took over 363 square kilometers between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean.
To the 2.3 million Palestinians huddled inside 'his house', Ismail has always been a son of Shat - the one who has 13 children - modest and devoted, ready to share with them that "salt and bread", as he shouted to the Israelis for almost two years. "They will be enough for us to survive, you will never bow to us." The most sarcastic comment that within the comforting distance of Qatar, the basil variety, Origanum Syriacum, can taste lamb. When in 2017 he replaced Meshal - who had spent 21 years at the helm - analysts were convinced that with him the organization could become more pragmatic, more interested in governing Gaza than ousting Israel from the Middle East. The same illusions that form around Yahia Sinar, elected to the position held by Haniyeh as ruler of the Belt. The predictions were shattered by the carnage last Saturday at dawn.
In these days of war, Israeli officials have declared that the entire leadership of Hamas is "destined to die." Avigdor Liberman, before becoming Minister of Defense, had warned: "Forty-eight hours after taking office I will give the order to kill Haniyeh." That was 2016. Three years later - now a former Netanyahu ally and among his most caustic critics - he revealed that he had presented to the Security Council "detailed plans to eliminate him and it was Bibi, in more ways than one case, the one who went against". / Corriere Della Sera
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