Hamas is reinstating control over Gaza and refilling management positions. As long as Hamas remains in power, there will be no long term peace because it is their goal to destroy Israel.
“On some days, as many as 20 drones might fly across the Egyptian border into Israel from different points. It does not matter that much if Israel shoots some of them down or uses electronic warfare spectrum weapons to get others to crash or land in an open field to be seized. As long as a certain percentage of the cargo gets through, the smugglers can make millions.
THE SMUGGLERS also learned that they could send a vast amount of weapons across the border. Some of these weapons might be for Arab Israelis or Bedouin. Still, others might be eventually destined for Hamas or even for being transferred to terrorist groups in the Palestinian Authority-controlled portions of the West Bank.”
During the Gaza war, Israel has ramped up its settlement, construction, and dividing of the West Bank, continuing to make a two state solution very difficult when Israel hasn’t made a space for a Palestinian state to exist.
Hamas spent tons of money building a buttload of overlapping tunnels, some cheap and small, others so advanced that you could drive trucks though. They could have spent this money helping Palestinians. They then further screwed Palestinians by reminding Israel that they were a terroristic threat by attacking on Oct 7.
For the moment, Hamas and Israel have a cease fire. The most likely outcome is things returning to the pre-war status quo: a terrorist theocratic dictatorship in Gaza who is determined to destroy Israel and kill Israelis, and Israel waiting for the next opportunity to “mow the lawn” while continuing West Bank settlements and maintaining control over that territory.