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Anti-Hamas protests on rise in Gaza as group's iron grip slips
"Out! Out! Out!"The voice in the Telegram video is insistent. Loud. Sometimes musical. And the message unambiguous. "All of Hamas, out!". On the streets of Gaza, more and more Palestinians are expressing open defiance against the armed group that's ruled the strip for almost 20 years.
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In a series of voice notes, an eyewitness – who asked not to be named – described several recent incidents in which local residents prevented Hamas fighters from carrying out military actions from inside their community. On 13 April, he said, Hamas gunmen tried to force their way into the house of an elderly man, Jamal al-Maznan. "They wanted to launch rockets and pipes [a derogatory term used for some of Hamas' home-made projectiles] from inside his house," the eyewitness told us. "But he refused."
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"They advanced and told [the gunmen] to take their things and flee. We don't want you in this place. We don't want your weapons that have brought us destruction, devastation and death."
Elsewhere in Gaza, protesters have told militants to stay away from hospitals and schools, to avoid situations in which civilians are caught up in Israeli air strikes.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c175z14r8pro
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In a series of voice notes, an eyewitness – who asked not to be named – described several recent incidents in which local residents prevented Hamas fighters from carrying out military actions from inside their community. On 13 April, he said, Hamas gunmen tried to force their way into the house of an elderly man, Jamal al-Maznan. "They wanted to launch rockets and pipes [a derogatory term used for some of Hamas' home-made projectiles] from inside his house," the eyewitness told us. "But he refused."
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"They advanced and told [the gunmen] to take their things and flee. We don't want you in this place. We don't want your weapons that have brought us destruction, devastation and death."
Elsewhere in Gaza, protesters have told militants to stay away from hospitals and schools, to avoid situations in which civilians are caught up in Israeli air strikes.
Is anyone paying attention? Gazans are telling you that they will no longer tolerate Hamas weapons in their homes, hospitals and schools. Not IDF. Not Netanyahu. Not Zionist land grabbers. Gazan Palestinians.
When will the world quit tolerating Hamas hiding their weapons and their cowardly asses in the Gazan homes, hospitals and schools and hold Hamas accountable? Where is the outrage of all the keffiyeh wearing performers for liberation of Palestine? Certainly not at the Doha luxury hotels housing the members of Hamas Politburo.