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War in Gaza: Has Hamas achieved its aims against Israel?

The masked Hamas fighter is hunkered down with an assault rifle against a damaged wall, apparently relaxed and sipping tea.

“There is a tank standing by the entrance of the tunnel,” the inscription reads on the social media post. “No problem, I will drink my tea, and go blow it up.”

Likewise, a short pro-Hamas propaganda sketch posted on TikTok purports to show a bearded fighter asleep under an olive tree after a night of prayer. He is woken by a comrade in camouflage, who tells him of an Israeli tank nearby.

“Mohamed” asks if he should strike it with a “Yasin 105,” a Hamas-made anti-tank grenade. The video shows him scoring a direct hit on the tank, then calmly returning to the olive tree to continue his

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