In the five years since it took sole control in Gaza, Hamas has built a governing apparatus that is now in firm control of the small strip. Between January 2006, when Hamas won parliamentary elections, and June 2007, when the Palestinian Authority was split between the West Bank and Gaza in a brief civil war, Palestinian politics was marked by turmoil and uncertainty. But since that time, both halves of the Palestinian political system have settled in. In Gaza, Hamas has taken the shambles of Palestinian Authority institutions and worked to rebuild them, sometimes obscuring the division between Hamas as a movement and the Gaza government in the process.
Full Report - 30 pages
http://carnegieendowment.org/files/hamas_settles_in.pdf
Yezid Sayigh: 'We Serve the People' - Hamas Policing in Gaza - 186 pages
http://www.brandeis.edu/crown/publications/cp/CP5.pdf
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