(Washington Post) Ernesto Londono - Gaza's brand-new, eight-story, luxury Al-Mashtal Hotel, which opened in July, is an oasis of stunning ocean views, steaks cooked to perfection and sparkling swimming pools. About 60 recently released prisoners are staying at the Al-Mashtal, with Hamas footing the bill until it can find them permanent housing. "The fact that Hamas calls these people heroes and puts these people up on a pedestal and tells the young that these are the people who are to be emulated I think says much about Hamas, where they are as a movement, what their values are and what their agenda is," Mark Regev, a spokesman for the Israeli government, said Monday. "Many of them were doing life sentences for killing innocent civilians."
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