The day after October 7, 2023, Benyamin Netanyahu’s vengeful rhetoric was deployed against Hamas, responsible for the bloody pogrom which took the lives of 1,200 people. “By attacking us, they made a historic error,” assures the Israeli Prime Minister, who promises the complete eradication of the Islamist organization. “Magical thinking”, for Frédéric Encel, professor of geopolitics and columnist at L’Express, who recalls that Hamas is not just a collection of fighters, but also “a movement which has done social work, which has distributed the soup kitchen, and sent children to school for free.”
A year later, Benyamin Netanyahu’s oath comes up against a political reality: Hamas, decimated militarily, remains despite the bombings and the ground offensive. “Israel presents tactical victories, but no strategic victory,” continues Hugh Lovatt, researcher at the European Council for International Relations (ECFR). The future of Hamas, and the impossible promise of the Prime Minister of the Hebrew State, is the subject of this new long video format from L’Express, to be found on our site and all our social networks.