Using the media for Dawa activity and the struggle for control over the educational sector
Despite the well-known tension between the traditional and modern way of life, Hamas has been able to exploit the innovations and inventions that modernism has to offer while reinforcing religion in Gaza. Computers and internet are mostly used to disseminate Muslim norms. Gaza-based media reports a widespread phenomenon of internet users surfing for religious purposes, mainly to disseminate Hamas' Dawa activity. Moreover, Muslim students are increasing their use of internet forums to discuss various issues related to Islam.

Apart from the internet, the press is also a factor when it comes to discussions on Muslim laws and traditions, usually through the Islamiyat (a newspaper section dealing with religion and Islam). For example, in the newspaper called Palestine, one female reader asked if she must wear her veil at all times. At one time she waited in line at a medical center; the line gradually grew and she felt hot, so she took off her veil. The women who were present angrily told her that such an act brings shame on her husband.

Dr. Yunes Al Astal, a prominent religious figure in Hamas, responded by telling her that if the husband wields his authority on his wife and forces her to wear a veil, she should do as he tells her otherwise she will cause herself damage and upset her marriage.

Al Astal warns of the veil's misusage for other reasons, such as disguising one's identity (for espionage, for example), beggary or arriving to "inappropriate places". He writes: "the task of enforcing women to wear the veil is not the family's role but the government's; it helps the Palestinians keep their integrity and religious nature".

Another proof for the ongoing trend of islamization and indoctrination processes within the Gaza Strip is the struggle for a Muslim-oriented system of education. As part of it Hamas has replaced the Gaza curriculum, based on the Egyptian curriculum, with a new one that was formed according to the "Palestinian national project.

Another proof for the struggle for a Muslim-oriented system of education is the arson (May 2010) of UNRWA's summer camp in Gaza. Following the event, Hamas officials recommended UNRWA to re-examine its curriculums and suit them to the Palestinian population, including implementing gender separation. In other words, Hamas insinuates that UNRWA too is responsible for the arson, and a change will prevent the reoccurrence of such event.

Religious figures in the Gaza Strip support the death penalty
Hamas has also made an appeal to Gaza-based religious figures to support the death penalty that has been recently implemented by Hamas. Religious figures who endorse the death penalty claim that it discourages people from conducting crimes and removes criminals from all walks of life, and even mitigates the difficulty of victims' lives. Some of them even consider Haniya's government as the first government in Gaza that has been implementing the death penalty; thus, the most moral government that "is carrying out God's will".

In 2009, Hamas government accepted the General Attorney's proposal, Mohammed Abed, to follow the Egyptian statute which specifies that rapists, spies, murderers, drug dealers and drug users are to be executed. In mid-April 2010, Hamas government executed two Palestinians accused of cooperating with Israel, and declared their intention to execute 30 more who were sentenced to death, in March for the same charge of cooperating with Israel. According to surveys conducted by Hamas, this measure was supported by Gaza residents, whereas the international community criticized it.       

Synopsis
Hamas pursues to dictate an Islamic agenda and islamization processes to Gaza population. However, this has been a gradual and indirect process which included application of modern tools to prevent Gaza residents from uprising.

This strategy is becoming matter of course (such as the support of the death penalty by the local population), and ensures that in due time, the Gaza Strip, under Hamas' rule, will become more and more fundamentalist.