BBC News, Reported by Jerusalem
The Palestinians took to the streets in South Gaza for the third day to protest against Hamas.
Hundreds of demonstrators were seen in videos published on social media calling for the end of the war and to eliminate the armed group from Gaza. “Outside! Outside! All from Hamas, out!” They chanted.
Talking against Hamas can be dangerous in gas and threats spread to the groups of WhatsApp journalists on Tuesday, forbidding them from publishing any “negative news that can affect the morals of people.”
Activists said young people started protests on Monday and were annexed by others on their way to receive food from community kitchens that still hold their pots.
Protesters focused their anger at Hamas's leadership after an interview with senior employee Sami Abu Zuhri, distributed on social media.
Speaking to a podcast, which was initially broadcast in late March, he said the war with Israel was “eternal”, adding: “We will restore the houses and produce dozens more babies for every martyr.”
Videos from the Han Dinis protests show that young men criticizing Hamas, that they sold their “blood for a dollar … to those with Hamas, keep in mind that Gaza people will dig your grave.”
SuppliedIn recent months, protests against Hamas have been increasing in North Gaza, but activists say the presence of the group in the south has remained strong and has so far successfully suppresses public disagreement.
International journalists, including those with the BBC, are blocked by Israel from reporting in Gaza and anti-Hamas moods remain difficult to evaluate from afar.
Israel has made daily air strikes on Khan ENNIS since Monday when Israeli army issued residents With one of the largest evacuation orders this year, telling those in the eastern half of the city to head immediately to the camps in the area of the coastal Al Mavasi.
One person we call Alaa was among those who started the protests. He agreed to speak to the BBC, provided for anonymity, of fear of Hamas repression.
“People are no more interested in Hamas's attempts to suppress their voice because they literally die of starvation, evacuation and bombing,” he said.
Alaa, who was originally from North Gaza, said he had to move about 20 times during the 19-month war and could not afford to buy a tent for a shelter.
Previously, he was closed to participate in anti-hama protests in 2019, Alaa said Hamas should leave.
“The resistance was not born with Hamas and even if Hamas was gone, there would be other faces of resistance (for the Israeli occupation). But this current policy will cost us all Palestine and the nation.”
“We just want our children to live in peace and convey a message to the whole world, to try their best to press Israel and Hamas so that we can save us and our children from this war.”
In Gaza, public criticism of Hamas carries significant risks.
In March, 22-year-old Odai A-Rubai was abducted and tortured to death by armed artillerymen after participating in protests against Hamas in Gaza.
Others have been reported to have been beaten, shot or killed for the public opposition to the group.
Alaa said that when their protest approached the hospital in Nasser on Monday, a group of men told them to stop.
“There was a man who wanted to take his gun, but his friend stopped him. They could not do anything because they were superior to the number of protesters.”
Mumen Al Natur, who is a lawyer, a former political prisoner and co-founder of the anti-Hamasian protest movement, we want to live, said: “Fatigue, effort and expenditure costs are pushing people to rebel against Hamas, who refuse to surrender and betray their weapons.”
The United Nations organization says more than 57,000 people have been displaced in South Gaza since May 15 because of combat and evacuation orders.
More than 53,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, according to Hamas Health Ministry, 82 of them in the last 24 hours.
Israel has launched a military campaign to destroy Hamas after the group's cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were returned to Gaza as hostage.