What does it take to surrender? The human souls? We lost enough. The city? Totally destroyed. Those who survived? Barely trying to survive one more day. Yet Hamas refuses. Not out of strength, not out of strategy, but because surrender means facing their own failure. It means admitting that all of this—the loss, the destruction, the unimaginable suffering—was for nothing. And that is something they cannot bear. So they hold on. Not for the people, not for Gaza, but for themselves. Because to surrender would be to let go of the power they’ve built, the control they’ve maintained, and the narrative they’ve spun for decades. They are not the ones searching for food in the rubble. They are not the ones watching their children waste away. They sit in safety while others pay the price. How much more is there to lose before they decide it’s enough? Or is the truth that they never will—because the suffering of Gaza has never been their concern, only their weapon.
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