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Economic, Social Protests Against Hamas Flare Up Again in Gaza
(MEMRI) S. Schneidmann - On Nov. 6, 2021, amid reports about the drowning of Gazan migrants off the Turkish coast, the Facebook page of the "We Want to Live" campaign, first launched in 2019, posted a message addressed to Hamas leaders in Gaza, warning that if the situation does not improve, protests will break out in the streets. "Who will condemn the heroic Gazan leaders...who [drive] SUVs, whose residences have become like palaces." "O leaders of Gaza, the public can no longer stand the deprivation. The levels of poverty and unemployment, and the poor living conditions, are not statistics that allow you to whimper at the doors of the donors, [begging for] support that does not benefit the people or improve their lives. The ongoing conduct of the government in Gaza proves without a doubt that the leader in his ivory tower does not see the people, and that he is almost completely out of touch with their reality." Many Gazans on social media expressed solidarity with the "We Want to Live" campaign, voicing harsh criticism against Hamas and calling for its removal from power. A Nov. 10 report in the Hamas newspaper Filastin claimed that Israel was behind the Facebook campaign.