(New York Times) Jodi Rudoren - Ismail Haniyeh, the top Hamas leader in Gaza, worked the crowd in what used to be the Boura neighborhood of Beit Hanoun in Gaza. Hamas has already handed out more than $40 million in $2,000 payments to each family whose home was hit, according to Mousa Abu Marzook, a Hamas official based in Cairo who accompanied Haniyeh. Polls show an unprecedented spike in popular support for Hamas because of the war. Haniyeh thanked Sadiya Nasser, whose son and two grandsons were among slain Qassam brigades fighters, for her sacrifice. Ms. Nasser thanked him, saying, "We hope the next victory will be in Jerusalem."
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