He'd ransacked, desecrated the temple.

Heroes and martyrs cannot be desecrated, and heroes cannot be forgotten.

Most of the activities of potential returnees more or less boil down to visits to their demolished, burned down homes and desecrated graveyards.

Committing acts of vandalism in the territories they had occupied, they plundered and burned nearly 500 historical and over 100 archaeological monuments, 22 museums and 4 art galleries and 9 palaces of historical importance, and desecrated 44 temples and 9 mosques.

Hamas s determination to assert its authority can be gauged by the desecrated corpses of Fatah fighters, many of them with bullets fired at their heads, a practice dubbed confirmation of death. The rocket attacks against Israeli territory are a transparent attempt to divert attention and rally the masses around Hamas as the true champions of the Palestinian cause.