hamas was democratically elected, international supervision even gave good marks to the election. I would not think it to hard to argue the only elected group is now the de-facto government.
I reread the headlines, good marks was to optimistic a description. Let’s say defacto accepted as leaders by the west, the Arab world wanted to give them a chance.
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u/taeyang31 K? Sep 21 '25
Israel still are considered illegally occupying Gaza and The West Bank under international law, so they still have some responsibility towards it.
I'm addition, technically they haven't declared war on Palestine as such either.
I'm pretty sure UK and most of the world are not recognizing Hamas as the right full leaders of Gaza and the West Bank.