Wait, Hamas won? When did that happen?
Hundreds of Palestinians poured onto the streets of Gaza City on Thursday to attend a Hamas victory rally, chanting support for resistance against Israel, an AFP reporter said.
Loudspeakers mounted by the roadside blared out Hamas victory songs as the crowd — most of them men but with some children dressed in combat fatigues and carrying toy guns — gathered in the square outside the parliament building.
A huge Palestinian flag hung behind a podium where speakers whipped up the crowd with chants of victory on the eve of the scheduled expiry of a 72-hour truce with Israel.
“We have won the military battle and with the permission of God we’ll win the political battle,” Hamas MP Mushir al-Masri told the crowd.
“Resistance, resistance, resistance!” chanted the demonstrators.