He main objective of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to justify the war has been the destruction of Hamas. “There is a quote from Donald Rumsfeld, the United States Secretary of Defense during the Iraq War, who wondered if they were not creating more terrorists of those who were killing with that war,” says Blas Moreno, Co-director of ‘El Orden Mundial’,

David Hernández, professor of International Relations at the Complutense University of Madrid, recalls in laSexta that “there have been more than 200 Palestinians murdered in the West Bank and thousands of Palestinians detained. They see that Hamas is the only actor that has strength to defend against Israel and to free the thousands of Palestinian prisoners.”

In this sense, Moreno warns: “Their children or nephews, who are 10 or 12 years old right now, when they see that their parents are killed by Israelwhat they are going to do in 7 or 8 years is again take a weapon and continue fighting.

Although it is not yet a majority support, support for Hamas is much higher than that of the leader of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. Hernández explains how “the Palestinian National Authority and Abbas were supposedly going to lead the formation of an Independent State of Palestine, but after 25 years that has not happened.”

In fact, 90% of Palestinians surveyed call for his resignation. “With what influence are they going to be able to control not only the West Bank, but for example the Gaza Strip?” Hernández asks. However, Abbas is the man the West trusts to lead a potential State of Palestine.