Gazans Take To The Streets

Fed up with living between wars Gazans demand dignity, Hamas to step down, as 'pro-Palestine' crowd acts like protests aren't happening

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“The rally in Beit Lahia. The recent demonstrations, though small, represent the most serious challenge to Hamas’s rule of the Gaza Strip since the war began.” | Saher Alghorra for The New York Times

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News reports from around the world convey that Gazans are rising up against the Hamas government, demanding them to step aside, across the war-stricken territory. Large-scale demonstrations began at the end of March but were halted over the weekend and the Eid al-Fitr holiday. “These protests were very openly and obviously asking Hamas to step down, get out of the political and military picture in Gaza,” according to one Gazan speaking to The Jewish Insider. The protests, partly critical of the Israeli government but mostly of Hamas, continue while ‘pro-Palestine’ activists hardly even acknowledge the uprisings or dismiss them as the consequence of nefarious ‘foreign influence’.