In war-battered Gaza, residents grow angry with Hamas

[applegrove]

In war-battered Gaza, residents grow angry with Hamas

By Claire Parker, Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Hazem Balousha and Hajar Harb
April 27, 2024 at 2:00 a.m. EDT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/27/gaza-hamas-public-support-israel/?

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JERUSALEM — More than six months into the war in Gaza and with dimming hopes for a cease-fire deal, Palestinians there are growing more critical of Hamas, which some of them blame for the months-long conflict that has destroyed the territory — and their lives.

The war has displaced most of the Gaza Strip’s population, killed tens of thousands of people and pushed the enclave toward famine, its infrastructure in ruins. The Israeli military waged a punishing campaign to eliminate Hamas after the group, which has ruled Gaza for 17 years, attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing an estimated 1,200 people and abducting more than 250.

But while the majority of Palestinians in Gaza blame Israel for their suffering, according to polling conducted in March, they also appear to be turning their ire toward the militants. In interviews with more than a dozen residents of Gaza, people said they resent Hamas for the attacks in Israel and — war-weary and desperate to fulfill their basic needs — just want to see peace as soon as possible.

If Hamas wanted to start a war, “they should have secured people first — secured a place of refuge for them, not thrown them into suffering that no one can bear,” said Salma El-Qadomi, 33, a freelance journalist who has been displaced 11 times since the conflict started.

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[msongs]

1. revolution in the offing? nt

[applegrove]

3. A recent poll said a slim majority of Gazaians want Hamas

to lead the country when there is peace but they don't know how many people were just afraid of speaking out against Hamas. The Palestinian Authority, Israel, the UN and one or more Arab nations were the other options in the poll.

[RandySF]

2. Finally

[AZLD4Candidate]

4. yet they cheered Oct 7th. Now that electing Hamas has blown up in their faces for the terrorist attack they cheered?

Day late, dollar short.

[angrychair]

5. The majority of the population

Are children and women.
I doubt there was a while lot of cheering from a 10 yr old.
Killing women and children does nothing to hurt Hamas. It only brings support to their ranks

[AZLD4Candidate]

6. children will do what their mothers do. That's how it works in the middle east. I've been to three countries there

And again, we are using Hamas supplied numbers for that. I've shown that in previous posts.