Hamas attack on Israel was inevitable following years of containment and poverty

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People gather at a mosque to pray over the bodies of the Abu Quta family and their neighbours, killed on Sunday in Israeli strikes on the Palestinian city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images The attack on Israel mounted by Hamas was inevitable. Gaza has become a pressure cooker waiting to blow up. Five years ago UN human rights envoy Michael Lynk declared Gaza had become “unlivable”. Statistics provide a bleak picture. The World Bank reports that 59 per cent of the 2.2 million Palestinians who dwell in the narrow coastal strip live...