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"Whispered in Gaza" the Anti-Hamas & Anti-PA Palestinian Movements [1]
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Date: 2023-11-14
..Masses gathered in Gaza City, Nuseirat, Khan Yunis, the Jabaliya refugee camp, Rafah, Bani Suheila and Shujaiya [chanting] “Hamas leave us be,” “We want to live,” and “The people want the fall of the regime.” The protests are politically, economically and socially driven, as living conditions and power outages in Gaza have become unbearable [amid a scorching heat wave and electricity outages].
[Some chants also called for ending the GS/WB Palestinian division.] “The people want the end of division” and “Abbas and Haniyeh, the people are the victims,” referring to [18-year] Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas [corruption link] and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh [corruption link] ….
Hamas’ security forces [violently dispersed] the peaceful protesters [injuring dozens, with many] hospitalized. One was wounded by a live bullet on the Abu al-Jedian square in north Gaza….
[A demonstrator assaulted] in Bani Suheila told Al-Monitor, “[Hamas’ security forces] barbarically attacked us even though the protests were completely peaceful. ... [Hamas doesn’t] care. They don’t even pretend to care … [They] ruined Gaza beyond hope and turned it into a place of misery, and yet they live luxurious lifestyles.."
[Another young demonstrator there said] “Years of our lives are being wasted. We’re suffering. We can’t find work, we can't make any money, we can’t get married, we can’t put food on the table. We can’t do anything in Gaza.”,,,
,,,Among the protesters’ demands is also for Hamas to allow municipal elections in the Gaza Strip. [Since rising to power in 2007, Hamas] has banned all forms of elections, including general, municipal, chambers of commerce, even university students’ council elections.
Hamas fills [all] positions from its own ranks and allies without any electoral process.
Hamas [security forces also assault] journalists and prevent them from covering the protests [notably], Palestine TV [newsman] Walid Abdel Rahman,] attacked while filming the demonstrations in the Jabaliya camp in the northern Gaza Strip [who reported to] the local Wafa news agency … Protesters surrounded the reporter, stopped the … beating him and [stopped them] from arresting him.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate condemned the attack. “Assaulting and preventing journalists from carrying out their work and covering the peaceful marches in several places in the Gaza Strip is a flagrant violation of the freedom of journalistic work,” the syndicate said in a press statement, which also called on human rights organizations to intervene.
..these are not the first such protests. In March of 2019, similar demonstrations under the same slogan, “We Want to Live,” lasted for four days.
[According to Muhammad Shehada, a Palestinian political analyst who writes for several papers, the growing popular anger against Hamas is significant but will lead to no tangible results, Hamas always retaliaties harshly], Shehada told Al-Monitor...
One of the groups advocating for the “We Want to Live” movement released a statement following the protests on Sunday, that read , “The time of silence over injustice and the exploitation of religion for oppression is over.”...
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