Hundreds of Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip protested the demand for the end of the war, in a rare general appearance of the opposition to the armed group that controls the Palestinian territories and that sparked the conflict with Israel in the October 7, 2023 attack.
Northern Gaza was one of the most destroyed areas of the 15 -month conflict, and it has now resumed, after it broke Israel The ceasefire agreement reached in January. Most of the buildings in this densely populated area were reduced to the rubble and most of the population moved to other places several times to escape the conflict.
Videos that started to spin on social networks on Tuesday show a group of people who are on a dusty road between the war damaged buildings. “Outside, outside, Hamas, outside,” the demonstrators sang in an area that would be the Beit Lahia area.
Reuters managed to confirm the video site through the location of the buildings, electricity columns and road planning that corresponds to satellite images in the region, but it was unable to independently verify the date of the video. However, many videos and joint photographs on social networks showed protests in this field on Tuesday. In other publications, one of the posters kept by the Palestinians said “sufficient wars”, while the crowd chased the phrase “we do not want the war.”
Hundreds of thousands of residents who fled to the south of Gaza at the beginning of the war, which has already killed more than 50,000 Palestinians, returned to their ruins in the northern region When the ceasefire entered January. But with Evacuation orders presented by the Israeli army After re -launching his attack, on March 18, a two -month -old truce act, the residents were forced to flee again.
Since Israel, which claims that its goal is to dismantle entire enthusiasm, it resumed nearly 700 people, most of them women and children, have been killed according to the last balance.
Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007, in the elections that the Fatah group rejected by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The group has ruled the pocket since then, Provide a large space for the oppositionAnd some Palestinians are cautious about speaking against Hamas publicly, for fear of revenge.
