After Israeli lawmaker Avigdor Liberman told the press that Israel is arming criminal groups in Gaza, news outlets scrambled to confirm the news. Ultimately, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did it for them. The World’s Host Carol Hills talks to Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, about who these groups are, and what this means for humanitarian aid, and Gaza’s future.
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