Children carry signs of Arabic that have read, “We reject death”, during a gathering calling for the end of the war, in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday.
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Tel Aviv, Israel – a rare and bold thing that occurs in Gaza.
The large crowds against Hamas demonstrated on Tuesday, the first major protest in Gaza against the Palestinian militants group since the war began with Israel more than a year ago. There are calls for more protests throughout Gaza on Wednesday.
Eyewitnesses say hundreds of anti -war protests in the northern city of Beit Lahia turned into a Hamas fighting protest on Tuesday.
“Terrorist enthusiasm,” chanted, In video Posted online by activists in Gaza. “Out, outside, Hamas, go outNPR spoke to many eyewitnesses who participated in the protests who testify to their sincerity.
Analysts say the protests come at a turning point in the war for Hamas and Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
The Palestinians are attending a gathering calling for the end of the war, in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday. Witnesses said that hundreds of Palestinians chanted with Hamas fighting slogans, and called for an end to the war with Israel.
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The renewable Israeli air strikes targeted their fighters and political leaders set underground and the weakest ability to confront Israel. Civilians pay a heavy price for Israel’s recent movements: its complete ban on food and basic supplies during the Islamic month of Ramadan, and the deadly strikes kill hundreds of people, including young children, and new evacuation orders that are interested in civilians to despair.
Israel returned to the war last week asking Hamas to launch more hostages captured on October 7, 2023, in exchange for Israel’s launching Palestinian prisoners.
“Hamas is unable to fight Israel, does not impose calm, and does not manage the exchange of prisoners. It is unable to provide the basics of life for people.” “Hamas no longer has any choice, so people began looking for potential power sources within themselves.”
The attention of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who himself is facing a new boom in the streets outside his home in Jerusalem, against his decision to return to the war in Gaza while the Israeli hostages are still being held there.
“We have seen something that we have not seen before. We have seen major open protests in the Gaza Strip against Hamas’s rule,” Netanyahu said in the Israeli parliament on Wednesday. “More and more Ghazan realizes that Hamas brings them destruction and death. This is important. All this indicates that our policy is working.”
The demonstrators called for Hamas to release the Israeli hostages
In the first protest on Tuesday, a man held a sign in English and said “The war stops.” Another stick with a white flag. The demonstrators called for media coverage, chanting, “Where are the media?”
The demonstrators who spoke to NPR asked for their first names to use only to speak freely against Hamas.
Ibrahim said: “Hamas does not take us into consideration. She has two million people in Gaza who need to live,” Ibrahim said. Hamas called for the release of the Israeli hostages he kept.
Muhammad said: “People are tired of displacement. There are no more safe places for people to go.” “So people went automatically to the streets and demanded that Hamas’s rule in Gaza fall to surrender. People want to live in peace and security.
Before the current war, the protests were canceled against Hamas
The Palestinian Islamic Islamic Group has not tolerated the open opposition in nearly 18 years of ruling Gaza.
Nader protest in 2019 against Hamas’s high taxes, while the Palestinians suffered from the Israeli economic blockade led by the Israeli forces by Hamas forces due to beating and arrests.
During the current war, the Palestinians spoke more frankly, accusing Hamas of not protecting them. Israeli air strikes have killed more than 50,000 people, nearly half of them are women and children, according to Gaza’s health officials.
Hamas did not acquire a protest on Tuesday or make any arrests.
In a statement in favor of NPR, Bassem Naim, the senior official in Hamas, said that people have the right to protest, but condemned what he said was efforts to “exploit these tragic humanitarian conditions” to advance “suspicious political schedules or exempt the criminal aggressor, which is the occupation and its army,” without the Islamic.
An Israeli column writer said that Israel should benefit from the moment.
“The protest in the Gaza Strip is now broke out because many Ghazan have tasted a long -term cease Books on the Israeli news site Ynet.
“Instead of accusations that” there is no innocent in Gaza “or talk about” a complete victory “, this is the time for Israel to seize the rift that opened and expanded more and more – because the war does not only win with artillery and bombings, but also through political movements.
Daniel Estreen from Tel Aviv, Abu Bakr Bashir from London and Ahmed Abu Hameda from Cairo.