Before there was Hamas

"Writing about a previous generation of Gazan children, Dr. James Graff said that between 1987 and 1993 a third had either been beaten or shot by Israeli soldiers. He mentioned a 1992 survey of Gazan's aged eight to 15 in which 89 per cent had had their homes raided at night and 45 per cent were there subjected beatings." "This was decades before Hamas rule and when the Strip's population barely exceeded 600,000. Thus the child victims of today are themselves descended from the child victims of yesterday, their homes now invaded by missiles at night rather than marauding soldiers."