Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, a weekly columnist for The National (UAE) and Now Media, and a monthly contributing writer for The International New York Times in an interview with Matt Galloway on CBC The Current defines Hamas in this way.
this is a religiously millenarian group, that it is apocalyptic and that it believes that it's doing the will of God. And so all of this is divinely mandated and there's a kind of religious imperative here. So I think there is also an irrational belief on the part of Hamas that in the end, if they are sufficiently fervent that there will be some kind of divine aid as well. (Monday October 16, 2023 Full Transcript, 2023)
Hussein Ibish comments on the likelihood of a terrible vengeance being inflicted on the Palestinian people of Gaza.
The Palestinian people of Gaza are the ultimate pawns on both sides. I think Hamas launched this attack on Israel with zero regard for the consequences to the people of Gaza. They knew what was likely to happen and they really did not care. They did no preparation, obviously, for the public. And really, they have acted with total disregard for the civilians of Gaza. The Israelis actually, I think, actively are pursuing their traditional policy of disproportionality, and I think they are going to inflict a terrible vengeance.(Monday October 16, 2023 Full Transcript, 2023)
The OCHA, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, coordinates emergency response to save lives and protect people in humanitarian crises. They advocate for effective and principled humanitarian action by all, for all. They have collected data on casualties experienced in conflict between Palestinian people of Gaza and people of Israel in the period from 2008 -2023. (the current war in Gaza is not included in these figures).
Data on casualties (Data on Casualties | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory, n.d.)
This note provides some additional background on the blue coloured slices of the pie. These are the slices likely to be associated with the largest number of casualties.
References
Data on casualties | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - occupied Palestinian territory. (n.d.). OCHA oPt. Retrieved October 17, 2023, from https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties
Monday October 16, 2023 Full Transcript. (2023, October 16). CBC. Retrieved October 17, 2023, from https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/monday-october-16-2023-full-transcript-1.6998168
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