It's a great question. I was researching this directly a few months before October 7. I was able to secure scholarships for two students at the Islamic University of Gaza (now destroyed) to come to the UK and I asked them about the conditions of their educational system. According to them, there was relative academic freedom in Gaza. No topics or books were banned. I think the biggest problem they faced was limited resources, huge class sizes (even undergraduate students had to become teachers, etc). By contrast, when I speak with Palestinian students and professors in the West Bank, I hear many complaints about censorship, crackdowns on academic freedom, corruption etc. So based on this issue alone, I had an impression that universities in Gaza had freedoms that were lacking in West Bank universities. None of this is to idealize Hamas or to minimize the dangers they pose, but I think the point to remember is that for many Palestinians, Hamas is a domestic local government that does much more than just wage war on Israel and they are regarded as less corrupt than the PA. I hope that helps! I tried to add some details since I am not aware of any good source, but here is an older piece from 2010: https://www.brandeis.edu/crown/publications/middle-east-briefs/pdfs/1-100/meb41.pdf.