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Standing in front of a grey backdrop decorated with Hamas logos and emblems of a gunman that commemorate the bloody October 7 attack on Israel, Osama Hamdan, the organisation’s representative in Lebanon, professed no concern about his Palestinian faction being dislodged from the Gaza Strip.

“We are not worried about the future of the Gaza Strip,” he recently told a crowded news conference in his offices in Beirut’s southern suburbs. “The decision-maker is the Palestinian people alone.”

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