‘Winning Means Controlling the Streets’

According to a number of Palestinian wonks interviewed by the Christian Science Monitor, Gaza’s civil war will only get worse:

“We are going from bad to worse. I’m not optimistic that the fighting will stop by this weekend. It will take a few weeks more,” says Nashat Aqtash, a former media consultant to Hamas. “They are taking the long way, and are fighting to win. Winning means controlling the streets” or losing power altogether.

And McClatchy describes the literal tribalization of Palestinian society.