Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Meshaal said the Palestinian group would rise “like a phoenix” from the ashes despite heavy losses during a year of war with Israel, and that it continues to recruit fighters and manufacture weapons. One year after Israel’s devastating war on Gaza, Meshaal framed the conflict with Israel as part of a broader narrative spanning 76 years, dating back to the Nakba or “catastrophe,” when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced during the 1948 war that accompanied the creation of Israel. “Palestinian history is made of cycles,” Meshaal, 68, a senior Hamas f…