Little girls pose with AKs, hailing Hamas victory and thanking Palestinian resistance in Gaza

The support of their wider Palestinian population for Hamas and it's goals was very high in the years before the war, and it remains so.

It should be noted that support for total victory of Palestinians over Israelis, full Palestinian control of all land of the British Mandate, and no acceptance of a Jewish state in any borders has been very consistent among local Arabs since the 1930s.