After everything Gaza has endured, the question is no longer why Hamas won’t surrender, but what exactly they're trying to protect. It’s not Gaza—they’ve already sacrificed it. Entire neighborhoods have vanished. Institutions, homes, lives, all buried. The people they once claimed to defend are now trapped in a living nightmare, and still, no change in course. Their refusal to surrender has nothing to do with protecting Gazans. That illusion has long collapsed. Their only goal now is to avoid accountability—not just for October 7, but for over two decades of authoritarian rule, political repression, and armed recklessness that has brought ruin upon millions. They fear surrender not because it ends the war, but because it starts the reckoning. A reckoning for the lies, the prisons, the executions, the stolen aid, the silenced voices, and the generation that grew up between funerals and ruins. This isn’t defiance. It’s evasion. And every day they stall, Gaza bleeds not for a cause, but for the cowardice of those too afraid to face their own people.
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