GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Hamas security forces were tightening their grip on Gaza’s ruined cities Tuesday even as global support mounted for a US-backed deal that would see them disarmed. When bus loads of prisoners freed from Israeli jails arrived in Gaza on Monday, fighters from Hamas’s Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades provided crowd control. In the north of the territory, as Israeli forces withdrew from Gaza City, the Hamas government’s black-masked armed police resumed street patrols.

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Thorny questions such as whether Hamas will disarm and who will govern Gaza are still to be answered, highlighting fragility of truce

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Hamas security forces were tightening their grip on Gaza’s ruined cities Tuesday even as global support mounted for a US-backed deal that would…