2024-04-08T07:45:24+00:00
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/ After months of war in the Gaza Strip, “rare” protests emerged against Hamas’s policy in managing the war file internally and externally.
In a “rare” scene, a group of young men wrote statements denouncing the rule of the Hamas movement, and others opposing the movement’s leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, who is seen as the de facto leader of the Hamas movement.
Phrases such as “Down with Hamas” and “Down with Sinwar” appeared on a statue in the middle of a square erected by Hamas near the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, in the latest form of protest against the movement that has controlled Gaza since bloody clashes with the Palestinian Authority in 2007.
Near a camp for the displaced, east of the city of Rafah, others wrote similar phrases on a cement cube, in light of the mounting anger over the movement’s management of the situation in the Gaza Strip, with the war continuing for more than seven months.
Demonstrators had previously gone out in a shelter center west of the city of Rafah to demand an end to the war, and criticized the separation of Hamas leaders, most of whom live outside the Gaza Strip, from the widespread suffering that the residents of the Strip are experiencing as a result of the war and displacement.
A limited demonstration also took place in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, demanding the release of hostages held by Hamas and an end to the war, in a rare protest against the movement’s policy, which a wide sector of Gazans view as having dragged Gaza into an uncalculated battle with Israel, which caused the destruction of the Strip.
In justifying its massive attack on Israel on October 7, Hamas said, “The operation was a necessary step and a natural response to confront the Israeli plans being hatched aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause and resolving sovereignty over Al-Aqsa Mosque and the holy sites.”
She indicated in a document published last January, entitled “This is our story… Why the Al-Aqsa Flood?”, that “the Palestinian people have suffered from all forms of oppression, injustice, confiscation of basic rights, and apartheid policies, and the Gaza Strip has suffered from a stifling siege that has continued since For more than 17 years, it turned into the largest open-air prison in the world.”