www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/gaza-chiefs-brutal-calculation-civilian-bloodshed-will-help-hamas-626720e7?mod=djem10point wsj.com
An investigation from the WSJ brings more proof of Hamas' real goals in the Gaza Strip:
It is an outcome that Sinwar foreshadowed six years ago when he first became leader in the Gaza Strip. Hamas might lose a war with Israel, but it would cause an Israeli occupation of more than two million Palestinians.
“For Netanyahu, a victory would be even worse than a defeat,” Sinwar told an Italian journalist writing in 2018
Hamas, with Sinwar as its head in Gaza, needs Palestinians to die for his war. It is the only way his organization (and him as a leader) can survive. Hamas is doing whatever it can to ensure more Palestinians die in the conflict.
Sinwar cited civilian losses in national-liberation conflicts in places such as Algeria, where hundreds of thousands of people died fighting for independence from France, saying, “These are necessary sacrifices."
There are many ways Palestinians have been clashing over their Independence; some in armed conflicts, others through diplomacy and attempts at (lasting) peace. So far, this conflict - Sinwar’s idea - has been the bloodiest.