Author: Mkhaimar Abusada, Visiting Scholar of Global Affairs, Northwestern University

In late February 2025, senior Hamas leader and ex-chairman of its politburo, Mousa Abu Marzouk, said he would not have supported Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel had he known how destructive Israel’s response would have been. That remarkably frank admission takes on renewed relevance now, just weeks later, after the resumption of Israel’s brutal bombing campaign. Airstrikes since March 18 have already claimed hundreds of Palestinian lives and officially ended a tenuous ceasefire deal. As an expert on Palestinian politics, I believe the return to active war in the Gaza Strip speaks – on the Palestinian side of…