Yet while they stole money on an international scale, Gaza until 2023 was not what the Hamas spokespeople abroad said it was. For years the journalist Tom Gross updated an online list of the luxuries and attractions available to people in Gaza. Even in 2010, while Western media talked about a place that constituted one great humanitarian catastrophe, Gaza boasted fancy restaurants, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and shopping malls. As even the Lonely Planet guidebook noted, at the Roots Club in Gaza you could “dine on steak au poivre and chicken cordon bleu.” Hamas very much ran things their
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