In a message to AFP, Fatah spokesman Monther Al-Hayek said that Hamas must show compassion for Gaza’s population and called upon the resistance movement to “step aside from governing and fully recognise that the battle ahead will lead to the end of Palestinians’ existence.”

If Palestinians are annihilated, though, it will be because of Israel’s genocide carried out with the full complicity of the international community, especially the US, UK and Europe. So, what message is Fatah trying to convey?

Since the beginning of the genocide, the discrepancy between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas was made more evident by the former’s insistence that it will govern Gaza when Israel is finished destroying the enclave. The international community was swift to latch on to the idea; after all, there has been no greater advocate of the two-state compromise than PA leader Mahmoud Abbas himself.

Moreover, working towards a hypothetical scenario with the PA in charge of Gaza does not disrupt the international community’s state-building and humanitarian paradigms.

Israel’s........

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