Thousands of Palestinians chanted against Hamas during anti-war protests last week in the Gaza Strip, the biggest show of anger at the militant group since its attack on Israel ignited the war.

Protesters said they were venting anger and desperation as they endure a new round of war and displacement after Israel ended a ceasefire. They leveled unusually direct criticism at Hamas even while remaining furious at Israel, the United States and others for their plight.

Public expressions of dissent have been extremely rare since Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007. The militant group has violently dispersed occasional protests and jailed, tortured or killed those who challenged its rule. Hamas has faced no significant internal challenge since the start of the war and still controls Gaza, despite losing most of its top leaders and thousands of fighters.

  • @biofaust@lemmy.world
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    -810 days ago

    Finally the population is getting the real point. This is a sentiment Europe and the UN should be investing in.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness
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          Oh yeah absolutely, but they’ll never be free under the Israeli boot either, and at least Hamas’s boot won’t starve the whole damn place to death.

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            I actually can’t tell you which one is worse if someone asked me that question. Israel is definitely trying to make nazis proud, but at least they would not personally execute my whole family just because I’m not a muslim who listens to music.

            One personally wants to kill me, other one is doing the killings already

            While they’re victims, obviously everyone including me leans towards giving Hamas benefit of doubt, but I feel like if roles would be reversed, you’d see a genocide on the levels not redditors could even defend it

            Note that I’m not talking about Palestinians, but Hamas, which is a different breed

            • @Uruanna@lemmy.world
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              but at least they would not personally execute my whole family just because I’m not a muslim who listens to music.

              Man, they are literally executing anyone they see for just existing in Gaza. Americans, health workers, ambulances. They literally said that babies born in Gaza are already terrorists. They make prisoners confess that they are Hamas by threatening to drone their whole family. So yes, they do execute your whole family just because they live there.

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                29 days ago

                I’m genuinely not aware of most things you mentioned, but to be fair I live in east Europe and my head is full with Russian invasion right now

                • @Doorbook@lemmy.world
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                  89 days ago

                  Then maybe you should not speak of something you don’t know or care about and focus on what is going on around you especially the part where “Israel votes against UN motion condemning Russian invasion of Ukraine”

            • @technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              69 days ago

              I actually can’t tell you which one is worse

              Who is worse: the people committing genocide or the people suffering from it? It’s not a complicated.

            • NoneOfUrBusiness
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              Gaza already has Christians so clearly they’re not executing people just for not being model Muslims.

              you’d see a genocide on the levels not redditors could even defend it

              That is simply not based in reality. Hamas does some horrid things don’t get me wrong, but they’re fundamentally an authoritarian state rather than a genocidal state.

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            I don’t see why, in a world in which the UN, who literally created the State of Israel of thin air, exists, we have to assume that, within or outside of the Palestinian population, Hamas is the only possible interlocutor for Israel.

            This is a huge assist to Netanyahu.

            • NoneOfUrBusiness
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              79 days ago

              Hamas is the only possible interlocutor for Israel.

              That’s because almost no established government is willing to support armed resistance against Israel. Dialogue will not save Palestine.

              • @biofaust@lemmy.world
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                -39 days ago

                I have the impression you are envisioning a much more violent response to Israel than what is needed or would be actually favorable for the Palestinian population.

                Remember that Israel is nothing without what the US and Germany, mainly, provided for decades.

                • NoneOfUrBusiness
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                  I have the impression you are envisioning a much more violent response to Israel than what is needed or would be actually favorable for the Palestinian population.

                  I’m not sure what you mean; what situation are you talking about here? Because under the current status quo Palestinians only have one means of resistance and that’s violence.

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                    09 days ago

                    Palestinians do, maybe. But the International Community should act to contain that instinct and provide an alternative.

                    This is not a war to be fought in Gaza, there you can have only massacre.

                    This war is to be fought in each and every country that deals or passively observes the massacre.

        • @technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          79 days ago

          Zios have been invading Palestine, stealing land, and murdering people for more than a century.

          Hamas is just the current excuse.