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Hamas resilient despite Israeli onslaught

AP, Grua City
Israel is methodically targeting the Hamas domain, bombing' government offices, security compounds, commanders. and even Hamas-linked clinics, mosques and moneychangers. Yet Gaza's Islamic rulers show no sign of buckling under the aerial onslaught.
Israel says Hamas still has thousands of rockets. Hamas TV and radio remain on the air. broadcasting morale-boosting battle reports. Hamas' political and military leaders communicate from hiding places by walkie-talkie. Police patrol streets to prevent price gouging and looting.
’Israel has destroyed the buildings, but Hamas is still here." Ahmed Yousef, a Hamas spokesman, said Thursday, the sixth day of the bombing campaign "There is no anxiety over the existence of Hamas even if they destroy all of Gaza because we are among the people. ’
Hamas' survival will depend on how far Israel is willing to go to obtain its
declared objective: crippling die group's ability to fire rockets at Israeli towns and cities. Thousands of Israeli soldiers are amassed on Gaza's border, waiting for the signal to invade.
Yet Israel, which withdrew its troops from Gaza in 2005 after a 38-year occupation, also says it does not want to reoccupy the area. That suggests Hamas will be able to cling to power in Gaza, which it seized by force from moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in June 2007.
Hamas' future also hinges on die conditions of the cease-fire that will eventually be brokered.
The group s leaders are demanding that Gaza’s borders be opened in exchange for calm; the territory has been largely sealed off by Israel and Egypt since the Hamas takeover. A plan promoted by Egypt and the US would link any opening of the borders to giving Abbas a new foothold in Gaza.
Widi Hamas losing much of its infrastructure to die Israeli assault, it might be
more willing to cut a deal with Abbas, said Gaza analyst Emad Falluji, a former Hamas activist.
For now, Hamas has proven surprisingly resilient.
Since the offensive began, the group's fighters have fired nearly 400 mortar shells, homemade rockets and Iranian-supplied Grad rockets, according to the Israeli military. It has struck two new targets closer to Israel's centre, the southern cities of Ashdod and Beersheba. Four Israelis have been killed.
Hamas has thousands more rockets in its arsenal, said Maj. Avital Leibovich, an Israeli army spokeswoman. Most of the weaponry has been smuggled in through some 300 tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border, including about 300 tons of explosives imported in die last three years, she said.
Israel has destroyed about a third of the tunnels, along with explosives and missiles stored in basements and mosques, Leibovich said. That has hurt Hamas' ability to fire rockets, but hasn’t crippled it, she said.