Hamas and Fatah fit this definition of government: "A compulsory political organization with continuous operations will be called a 'state' [if and] insofar as its administrative staff successfully upholds a claim to the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force (das Monopol legitimen physischen Zwanges) in the enforcement of its order." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence - In contrast, you seem to be defining whether Palestine has a government by whether Israel recognizes that government. That's not how governments or states are defined. Hamas is a state. Hamas is a government. One like the Nazis, so it needs to be destroyed. (For anyone reading this, it is not surprising that this baby-beheading excuser's username "Pennygame" is derived from a horror film evil spirit, Pennywise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_(character)