Amnesty International denounces that Hamas pursues and tortures the protesters in Gaza
Amnesty International (AI) said Wednesday that Hamas’s secret services have intimidated, threatened and harassed, even with interrogations and batteries, civilians who have exercised their right to peaceful protest in the Gaza Strip.
These are complaints collected by AI in the last two months of facts produced in the framework of Gazati’s protests by the “Israel Genocide” and the recent climbing climbing in Gaza, and that also cried against Hamas, which governs in the enclave.
“These protests have attracted hundreds, if not thousands, from Palestinians. The protesters have chanted slogans and carrying banners criticizing the Gaza authorities led by Hamas, and some people have asked for the end of the Hamas government,” says Amnesty. There have also been protests in the Yabalia refugee camp, in the neighborhood of Shuja’iya in Ciudad de Gaza and Jan Yunis.
The Director of Research, Political Incidence and Campaigns of AI, Erika Guevara-Rosas, asked the Hamas authorities to “immediately end all repressive measures against the Palestinians who bravely and openly express their opposition to Hamas’s practices in Gaza.”
“The reports on beatings, threats and interrogations are extremely alarming and constitute serious violations of the right to freedom of expression and peaceful meeting,” added the responsible, who considered “aberrant and shameful” that to the “atrocities” that these intimidations are involved in the strip.
The human rights organization spoke with more than a dozen people who participated in the protests and told them that after participating, there were people who were cited outside the regular protocol and hit them with sticks and in some cases threatened to kill them. “The security forces came threatening and hitting us, accusing us of being traitors, just for protest,” says one of the testimonies.
In another, he tells himself as another young man hit her neck with sticks, they shouted him, they accused him of a traitor and collaborating with Israeli intelligence: “I lost my family in one of the worst massacres of this war; five brothers and their children were killed. It is horrible that they point to you as a collaborator, that they question your patriotism, after your family willing to get your family,” he says.
The majority of the testimonies also report that they were notified and threatened so that they would not go back to protest. Amnesty International recalled that since Hamas came to power in 2007 in the Gaza Strip, he established a parallel security system and imposed restrictions on protests, especially in 2019 when he regularly arrested dissidents to torture them.
“Even during Israel’s ongoing genocide, Hamas’s security services continued to restore freedom of expression, even crossing out traitors who criticized them,” said the organization, based in London. (EFE)
