Hamas’s iron grip slowly slides when residents protest

“Oh!”

The voice in the telegram video is persistent. Loudly. Sometimes musical.

And the message is unambiguous.

“All from Hamas, exit!”

On the streets of Gaza, More and more Palestinians express an open challenge Against an armed group that managed a strip for almost 20 years.

Many consider Hamas, who is responsible for immersing a tiny, impoverished area into the worst crisis that Palestinians face over 70 years.

“Take a message,” another crowd chant when it crosses the devastated streets of Gaza: “Hamas garbage”.

“The world is deceived by the situation in the gas strip,” says Mumum al-Natur, Gaza lawyer and a former political prisoner, who has long been a vocal critic Hamas.

Al-Natur spoke to us from the broken remains of his city, a far-fetched canvas side of the tent, which is now part of his home that blowing behind him.

“The world believes that Gaza is Hamas, and Hamas is gas,” he said. “We did not choose Hamas, and now Hamas determined the determination of gas and tie our fate to our own. Hamas must retreat.”

The conversation is dangerous. Hamas never tolerated dissent. Al-Natur seems unwavering by writing an angry column for the Washington Post in late March.

“Hamas’s support should be for the Palestinian death,” he wrote, “not Palestinian Freedom.”

Whether it was dangerous to talk this way, I asked him.

“We must risk and speak out,” he replied without hesitation.

“I am 30 years old. When Hamas took the post, I was 11. What did I do with my life? My life was spent between war and escalation of violence for nothing.”

Ever since Hamas has taken control of gas in 2007, strongly displacing political competitors, a year after winning the national elections, three major wars with Israel and two smaller conflicts occurred.

“Humanity demands that we raise our votes,” Al-Natur said, “despite Hamas suppression.”

Hamas can be busy fighting Israel, but it is not afraid to punish its critics.

At the end of March, 22-year-old Oid al-Rubai was abducted by armed militants from a refugee shelter in Gaza.

A few hours later, his body was found covered with horrific wounds.

The Palestinian Independent Human Rights Commission stated that Oida had been tortured, calling his death “a serious violation of the right to life and extrajudicial murder.”

Al-Ruba participated in recent actions against Ham. His family accused Hamas of death and demanded justice.

A few days earlier, the frightened al-ruby posted a dark, granular video in which he expressed fear that Hamas militants were coming to him.

“Gaza became a city of ghosts,” he said, glancing over his shoulder.

“I pressed the street without knowing where to go. I don’t know why they were following me. They destroyed us and brought us the ruin.”

At his funeral, a small crowd demanded revenge and repeated Hamas’s demands to leave Gaza.

Last summer, Amen lunch almost suffered the same fateAfter his decision, he will oppose Hamas.

Masked militants beat him meaninglessly, broke bones all over his body and damage the kidneys. Lunch survived, but had to seek medical treatment abroad.

Now he lives in Dubai, he is still involved in the protest movement and believes that Hamas’s power is decreasing.

“Hamas’s power began to disappear,” he told me.

“He is aimed at activists and civilians, knocks down and kill them to scare people. But it’s not as it was before.”

Before the ceasefire collapsed last month, Hamas fighters seemed intentionally to highly noticeable manifestations of power.

But now, when Israel is not attacking tirelessly again, the same militants retreated underground, and the civilians of Gaza were immersed back into the misfortune of the war.

Some of the latest protests believe that civilians who have been to the edge of the madness for a year and a half of Israel bombing are losing fear of Hamas.

Bate Liahi, at the northern end of the Gaza Strip, saw some of the most vocal opposition.

In a series of vocal notes, an eyewitness – who asked not to call him – described several recent incidents in which the locals prevented Hamas fighters to conduct hostilities from the inside of their community.

On April 13, Hamas Banman tried to get into the house of an elderly man Jamala Al-Masnan.

“They wanted to launch rockets and pipes (humiliating term used for some Hamas’s home shells) from the inside of his home,” the eyewitness told us.

“But he refused.”

The incident was soon aggravated when the relatives and neighbors were all in defense of Al-Masnan. The militants opened fire, injuring several people, but eventually expelled.

“They were not intimidated by bullets,” the protesters said.

“They advanced and said (militants) to take their things and run away. We don’t want you in this place. We don’t want your weapons that brought us destruction, destruction and death.”

Elsewhere, the participants of the rally told the militants to stay away from hospitals and schools to avoid situations in which civilians fall into Israeli air strikes.

But such jurisdiction is still risky. Hamas shot one such protest in Gaza -Solah.

With a little, to lose and hope that the war has once again tapped, some gaskets direct their fury equally in Israel and Hamas.

Asked which side he most accused of the gas disaster, Amen lunch replied that it was “cholera choice and plague.”

Movement of protest of recent weeks is not yet an uprising, but after almost 20 years of the Hamas Iron Capture Movement in Gaza slowly slides.