Thread: Anti hamas protests in gaza

Gazans chant anti-Hamas slogans as they condemn terrorists’ war
Rare protests as demonstrators call for end to conflict with Israel

26 March 2025 3:12am GMT

Hundreds of Palestinians shouted anti-Hamas slogans at a rare protest in Gaza on Tuesday.

“Hamas out” and “Hamas terrorists” were chanted by the mostly male demonstrators in Beit Lahia as they called for an end to the war with Israel, witnesses said.

The crowd had gathered a week after the Israeli army resumed its intense bombing of the coastal territory, following nearly two months of a truce.

On the social media network Telegram, at least one appeal to protest was circulating on Tuesday, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency reported.

CNN reported that another message on social media appeared to call for nine anti-Hamas demonstrations across Gaza on Wednesday, while clips obtained by the network showed crowds marching through the streets of Beit Lahia chanting “We want an end to the war”, it said.


Reports suggested that further protests had broken out in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, on Tuesday night. The Telegraph was not able to verify these reports.

Protests against Hamas are rare in the Gaza strip. The terror group has cracked down violently on demonstrations in the past, with Amnesty International reporting in 2019 that people had been beaten and detained arbitrarily over protests against the cost of living.

It also said protesters had been subject to torture while in detention.

“I took part to send a message on behalf of the people: Enough with the war,” he said, adding that he had seen “members of the Hamas security forces in civilian clothing breaking up the protest”.

Majdi, another protester who did not wish to give his full name, said the “people are tired”.

“If Hamas leaving power in Gaza is the solution, why doesn’t Hamas give up power to protect the people?” he asked.

Israel regularly calls for Gazans to mobilise against the Islamist movement that has been in power in the territory since 2007.


The Gaza Strip has been devastated by more than 17 months of war between Israel and Hamas.

The humanitarian situation again deteriorated after Israel blocked the passage of aid into the territory on March 2 in an attempt to force Hamas to release the remaining Israeli hostages.



Since Israel resumed its military operations in Gaza, at least 792 Palestinians have been killed, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory.

The October 7 attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people, mostly civilians, according to official figures.

The number of people killed by Israel’s retaliatory military offensive surpassed 50,000 for the first time on Sunday, according to the health ministry.

Israel says it has killed about 20,000 militants, without providing evidence.

The protests came as the Oscar-winning director of a documentary on the conflict was released from detention on Tuesday, a day after being injured and arrested during a raid by Israeli settlers on his village in the West Bank.

Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the award-winning No Other Land, said he had been assaulted by settlers after filming them attacking a neighbour’s house and then returning to make sure his own house was not attacked.

The war in Gaza has sparked a surge of violence in the West Bank, with the Israeli military carrying out military operations that have killed hundreds of Palestinians and displaced tens of thousands.



There has been a rise in settler violence, as well as Palestinian attacks on Israelis.


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About time too.

So the problem actually isn't ​every single Muslim on the planet as you have previously insisted?

When?

You'd be very brave protesting against the Hamas Nazis.

They'll all be quids in when Trump's 'Gaza a Lago' project is completed.

Gazans are seeing Hamas for the murderers they are, only its Western fellow travellers remain blind
Ordinary Palestinians are rising up against Jihadis. Why is not more being made of it by the BBC and the Saturday marchers?

26 March 2025 1:32pm GMT

Jake Wallis Simons

Over the last 48 hours, there have been more protests against Hamas inside Gaza than we have seen over the past 17 months in London. The marches first emerged in the north of the Strip, with beleaguered Gazans bravely calling for the release of Israeli hostages, facing down reprisals from their jihadi overlords. When did you last hear such demands at the rallies endured by our capital on Saturdays?

The uprisings are ongoing. They have spread south, even erupting in the Hamas stronghold of Jabalia in Gaza City, where a protest in 2019 was viciously repressed by the jihadis.

It is impossible to know whether they will be snuffed out by hastily recruited 16-year-olds with Kalashnikovs or if this is the start of something bigger. But the episode has already neatly revealed the deplorable hypocrisy at the heart of Gaza activism in Britain, seemingly more concerned with feeding a lust for the denigration of Israel than the welfare of the Palestinians.

I first learnt about the protests from my old friend in Gaza City, whom I know from my time as a foreign correspondent. He sent me a message on WhatsApp containing links to footage on Facebook. I was unable to open them. “Try to please,” he implored. “Important videos.”

He was desperate to get the word out because he and his comrades felt they were facing a media blackout. The irony was stark.

The BBC falls over itself to blame Israel the minute civilians are killed, without waiting for the facts; yet risk your life to protest against Hamas and the prevarication is palpable. Here were real-life Palestinians making their voices heard in Gaza, only for journalists to stick their fingers in their ears because it disrupted the narrative they’d been peddling for the past, well, forever.

From one point of view, you’d have thought that the story would be widely covered. After all, isn’t the BBC normally keen to make a distinction between the fanatics of Hamas and the innocent civilians of Gaza as soon as an Israeli bomb lands? The problem, however, is that what serves the narrative in one context can have the opposite effect in another.

The unpalatable truth is this: in the back of every liberal mind there lurks a guilty sympathy for Hamas. They have learnt not to say it out loud, but in a brain addled by centrist fundamentalism, decolonisation dogma and critical race theory, it is hard to resist the siren call to embrace the most savage jihadism simply because it fits.

The white man is the enemy. The imperialists are to blame. Colonialism is the worst evil ever to befall mankind and the underdog deserves solidarity, ergo resistance is justified. This is how they think.


Yasser Arafat’s alignment with the decolonisation movement in the Sixties, in particular the Algerian defeat of the French, was a stroke of genius which won unquestioning solidarity from the Left. The delusion persists today.

The reality, of course, is that most Jews are not white. Israel is not a colonial power. The Palestinians have been offered a state on several occasions – including the 2008 Olmert proposal, which satisfied 100 per cent of their supposed demands – but turned down every one in favour of bloodshed.



Hamas is no different from Islamic State. “Resistance” is simply code for the wanton rape, butchery and mutilation of families in their beds, motivated by fanatical religion (Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, for God’s sake). But when you’re wearing your BBC goggles, such subtle distinctions as these become cloudy. Pretty soon, you end up thinking Yahya Sinwar is Che Guevara.

Shamefully, this dogma continues to dominate on the Left today. You just can’t shake them out of it. So we end up with patrician BBC journalists ignoring facts which don’t match their dogmatic understanding of the world, as they don’t want to confuse the public. We see activists in London, in their keffiyehs and crop-tops, tearing down hostage posters just as the weary people of Gaza take to the streets in defiance of their jihadi oppressors.

Resistance is justified, you say? Perhaps. So where’s your solidarity for the Palestinian resistance against Hamas, who brought this nightmare on their heads in the first place?


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The silence on this development from teak doors many pro hamas posters is deafening.

Resistance is justified, you say? Perhaps. So where’s your solidarity for the Palestinian resistance against Hamas, who brought this nightmare on their heads in the first place?

Answers on the back of a virtual postage stamp please to tax @ solidarity with israel.comm.

Armed Palestinian gangs call for ‘march of anger’ to oust Hamas from Gaza

Protesters take to the streets demanding an end to the war and an ‘uprising against injustice’

Jerusalem Correspondent
26 March 2025 7:05pm GMT

Armed gangs in Gaza have called for an “uprising” against Hamas, as a second day of protests challenged the terror group’s control of the strip.

In a rare act of defiance, a confederation of powerful families, known as the “clans”, issued a call to arms on Wednesday, urging Palestinians to revolt against “years of oppression”.

The families have been an influential force in Gaza for decades, although they have been largely subordinate to Hamas since the Islamist group seized power from the Western-backed Palestinian Authority 18 years ago.

In a statement apparently on behalf of the “families and clans” of southern Gaza, the body called for a “popular uprising against injustice and a march of anger that will shake the ground under the feet of those who sold our blood and exploited our suffering for their narrow interests”.

Hundreds gathered in several different locations on Wednesday to call for Hamas to be ousted and for an end to the war with Israel.

Footage showed crowds of men streaming towards a protest site in the Beit Lahia area of northern Gaza.

Meanwhile, in the Nuseirat area of central Gaza, a man could be seen sitting on the shoulders of another while leading the large crowd in a furious chant.

Protesters also gathered in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City’s old quarter.

In another video, a large group of children chanted “we don’t want to die”.

The gatherings are significant because elements of the Israeli media commonly conflate the terror group with Gazan civilians.

The fact that ordinary people felt emboldened to protest for a second day is significant given Hamas’s record of brutally suppressing challenges to its authority.

It comes eight days after Israel ended the ceasefire and restarted its attacks on the enclave with a particular focus on eliminating the leaders of Hamas’s civil governance.


It has been speculated in Israel that commanders hope that by loosening the terror group’s grip over the population – in particular the distribution of food – it will empower rival armed groups to challenge them.

The clans have had an uneasy relationship with Hamas in the past two decades. There was significant bloodshed in 2008 and at other points as Hamas sought to gain lasting supremacy over them.


While some have affiliations to different terror organisations, including al-Qaeda, they are generally not considered to be jihadist organisations such as Hamas.

Amal Kloub, 35, from Shuja’iyya camp, where one of the protests took place, said: “Today, young people went out because they are tired of the ongoing war, negotiations, and political speeches that are indifferent to the citizens of Gaza.

“Hamas has been in power for nearly 20 years and we have only experienced successive wars due to the blockade and occupation.”

The camp is situated in the traditional stronghold of the Hilles clan, although it is not known if they played a role in Wednesday’s protests.


Samir Saud, 25, from the Nuseirat refugee camp, said: “We want elections. I want to live the experience of elections. We want to change the exhausting and tragic reality and build our future. Gaza has been completely destroyed and no one has benefited from the war except for destruction.”

The call to arms by the southern families and clans concluded: “Hamas must lift its hand from Gaza immediately and end this unjust siege imposed on us because of decisions that do not represent us.”




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