From the Washington Post of 22 Nov 2012 entitled "Hamas leaders emerge stronger than ever, Palestinians say":
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Hamas has struggled to control extremist offshoots within the coastal enclave, and it was unclear whether the new truce had rendered the group any more capable of preventing a breach by other groups that possess long-range rockets, including Islamic Jihad ...
Some Palestinians, including militants and top government officials, warned that Israel ... might back down from the secondary clauses of the cease-fire deal. ...
“Israel besieged the Hamas government to make people hate Hamas. And in the beginning, they really did,” said a strawberry farmer who declined to give his name because he hopes to cross the border one day.
“But after this war, even people in the West Bank are loving Hamas now,” he said.
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Ironically, a loser is Fatah - a noncombatant.