Palestine is one of those de facto countries that springs up from time to time. If you stick to the official definition of UN recognized countries, then Palestine is not a country, nor is Taiwan, nor the Tamil region of Sri Lanka. But, since these territories are all out from under the control of their respective "controllers", you can treat them as de facto.

More important, to me at least, is that Gaza is more autonomous than the West Bank seems to be at this time. When I refer to Abbas being kicked out of his "country", I mean that even though he is still a leader in the West Bank, there are now two quasi-countries where there was only one last week. Hamas controls the Gaza Strip in its entirety, which means that they get to make the rules, and I doubt that they will be too eager to power share with Fatah. Any attempt to order a new "compromise" government is probably too little, too late, because he's essentially dealing with an independent country.

I'm suspicious that Fatah, Israel, and the US all wanted this. Fatah is not the most competent political group to be in control, and Hamas is built to exploit this. Now that they're in control, we'll see how well they do.

I hold little hope for Israel finding a subtle way to deal with this though, too much at stake.