If Hamas was the party elected in the Gaza Strip as the government, than any organization, any person being paid by that government can be by default, a Hamas asset.
It's a problem acknowledged by a few Palestinians and Lebanese people I have spoken to over the years. Both Hamas and Hezbollah, while Iranian proxies provide both "hard" ( "protection"/military/police ) and "soft" ( community services/NGO support/schools/health support ) influence to those areas they are organized. Both groups have a significant civilian presence that are ignored because of rockets and belligerence of the armed terrorist/freedom fighter wing of the organizations.
So a community doctor who is able to pay for his office, nurse and medical supplies because of a nebulous affiliation with Hamas/Iran is just as much a target for an air-strike as a couple dead-enders in an abandoned schoolyard with a couple tripod rocket launchers. Basically, almost half the male Palestinian population on the West Bank and Gaza over the age of 12 can be considered Hamas members, and any small business or clinic can be considered a Hamas asset.
That is the tragedy of the Palestinians (and Lebanese) Syria and Jordan view them both as break-off tribal territories and would only help them if they came back to the fold, as it were. The rich Wahabbi Arab nations (Saudi, UAE) view them as poor apostates and undeserving of help until they convert, Egypt won't help Gaza unless it agreed to be part of Egypt, and of course Israel won't accept them as full citizens because they won't submit to giving up their own heritage and participating in the Knessit/Zionist vision of the Jewish Homeland.
So they fight against what they see as injustice. And Israel fights back -harder, with better technology. And Iran subsidizes Hamas and Hezbollah, because of various political grievances between Iran and Israel from decades past that neither country can let go of.
It's a horrible, difficult situation.
And it's colored by resentment and hubris on all sides.
But as to how this might end? Well, it doesn't look good at all for the increasingly smaller clusters of Palestinian civilians who just want to run their shops and farm their ancestral farms like their great-great-grandparents did, back in the days when the native Jews, Arabs, and Christian were pretty much united against the British, French, or. Ottoman rule.
Haele
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