Correspondent Mitchell Prothero of The Observer has an unusual take on Gaza’s security breakdown:
Al-Qawasmeh had been selected as a neutral choice to lead Gaza’s security forces but his neutrality also meant he lacked any gunmen of his own, thus making it impossible for him to exercise any authority over Gaza’s many different semi-official armed factions.
So this is what Gaza has sunk to: The main qualification for Palestinian leadership is the number of gunmen you command.
