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Cairo/Ramallah (Reuters) – Hundreds of Palestinians protested in northern Gaza demanding the end of the war and singing “Hamas outside”, according to social media publications, in a rare public demonstration of opposition to the militant group that triggered the latest war with their attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Northern Gaza has been one of the devastated areas of Gaza. Most buildings in the densely populated area were reduced to rubble and much of the population has moved several times to escape the conflict.
“Outside, out, Hamas, out,” people shouted seen in one of the X-apply publications, apparently from the Beit Lahiya region of Gaza on Tuesday. The post showed people marching along a dusty street between war -damaged buildings.
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“It was a spontaneous manifestation against war, because people are tired and have nowhere to go,” said a witness, who spoke on the condition that his name was not used for fear of reprisals.
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“Many sang slogans against Hamas, not all people, but many, saying ‘outside Hamas’. People are exhausted and no one should blame them,” he said.
Posts started to circulate widely at the end of Tuesday. Reuters was able to confirm the location of the video through buildings, electricity poles and tracing of roads that correspond to satellite images of the region. Reuters could not independently check the video date. However, several videos and photographs shared on social media showed protests in the area on March 25.
In other publications, one of the crowd -held tracks said “No more wars,” while people shouted “we don’t want war.”
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Base Naim, senior authority of Hamas, said people had the right to protest against the suffering inflicted by war, but criticized what he said were “suspicious political agendas” exploring the situation.
“Where they are, what is happening in?” He said. “Why don’t they protest against aggression there or not allow people to take to the streets to denounce this aggression?”
The comments, which reflect the tensions between the Palestinian factions about the future of Gaza, were made several hours after the rival Fatah movement called Hamas to “respond to the appeal of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip”. FATAH leads the Palestinian Authority (AP) in the occupied West Bank.
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More than 50,000 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli campaign in Gaza, launched after thousands of Hamas -led men attacked communities in the south of Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 as hostages.
Much of the coastal edge narrow was reduced to rubble, leaving hundreds of thousands of people sheltered in tents or bombarded buildings.
