In Gaza, anger grows at Hamas along with fury at Israel [In-gaza-anger-grows-at-hamas]
That includes Swairjo himself. He lost his pharmacy, livelihood and house to Israeli bombings over the last four months.
“These people are smart enough to understand what is happening, and what is coming in the future.” Because of that, they will change,” Swairjo says. People will obligate them to change and they will not accept another war. People won’t accept to keep this going forever.
This is the fifth war Hamas and Israel have fought since Hamas took over Gaza. The U.S. and its allies are talking to the Palestinians about what their future leadership will look like after the war is over.
There are supporters of Hamas in Gaza. A majority of Gazans support the decision by Hamas to attack. Most of the Palestinians surveyed said they had not seen the videos of Hamas’ attacks on Israelis that day and didn’t think Hamas committed atrocities.
Israel has threatened to kill Hamas leader Sinwar, but he remains in hiding, leading negotiations with Israel for a hostage-prisoner exchange and ceasefire.
But Hamas still maintains a fighting presence on the battlefield, and has even reasserted itself as a governing force, paying partial salaries to civil servants and sending police officers to patrol in areas where Israeli troops have withdrawn.
Source: In Gaza, anger grows at Hamas along with fury at Israel
The Gazans, the Israelis, and the “Nakba,” the Palestinians, aren’t happy with Hamas
The generation that lived in Gaza never saw a tank. The crazy man brought the tanks to the center of the refugee camp because of stupidity,” Mohanad Mehrez wrote.
“(Hamas) should give consideration to their people,” says Suheir Safi, amid the wafting smoke of a mud oven, where Palestinians baked bread near a tent. “Every shepherd is responsible for his flock.”
“The resistance says it’s ready for rounds of combat for months and years,” Al-Ghoul says. We resist once we are provided with our daily bread.
Abdelsalam Al-Ghoul, a 30-year-old Palestinian who fled his home in Gaza, called Hamas’ attack an “honorable act” against Israeli oppression, but says Hamas “greatly misjudged the situation,” because Hezbollah and Iran didn’t join the attack, diminishing its results.
Many people in Gaza equate the situation with what Palestinians call the “nakba”, Arabic for catastrophe, when the Palestinians were displaced by the Arab-Israeli war of 1948.
“Netanyahu and Sinwar, enough war and enough destruction,” they chanted, in a protest captured on film and shared on social media. “The people demand a cease-fire.”
In the last few weeks, there have been demonstrations in Gaza expressing unhappiness with Hamas over the war. At the demonstration in Khan Youns, the protesters pointed out the leaders of Hamas and Israel.
Cheers rang out on the streets of Rafah this week after Hamas said it responded in a “positive spirit” to a proposal for a cease-fire. Some Gazans were not happy about Hamas giving demands for shaping Gaza’s reconstruction and future.
As fighting has advanced south, more than half of Gaza’s population has been forced into Rafah, the territory’s southernmost major city, U.N. officials say. Apartments and houses that once held a single family now sleep more than 100 people, families in Gaza tell NPR. U.N.-operated shelters are at four or more times their capacity, its agency in Gaza says. Those with nowhere else to turn are living in tents.
“I don’t know if they thought about it, and what would happen to us,” Abdelaal says about Hamas’ decision to attack Israel on Oct. 7. We did not receive a warning to leave.
What is ‘domicide’ and why has war in Gaza brought new attention to the term, and why does it affect South Africa’s case
First, he escaped Israeli bombing on his Gaza City neighborhood. He hid in a UN school for 40 days before it was hit. He went to central Gaza, then further south to Khan Younis, then even further south to Rafah, escaping each time the Israeli military got closer.
The reconstruction of Gaza will be very tiring and expensive. The amount of rubble and debris generated by airstrikes and demolitions is alone so staggering that it could take more than four years just to clear it, OCHA says.
The court found that Israel has committed acts that violate the agreements and ordered it to ensure that its forces don’t engage in such activity.
The destruction of homes was a key part of South Africa’s argument before the International Court of Justice at the Hague last month, when it formally accused Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians. Israel, a nation founded in the aftermath of the Holocaust, has strenuously denied South Africa’s allegations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the charge of genocide “outrageous” and a “vile attempt to deny Israel [the] fundamental right” to defend itself.
“We all understand that killing can be a murder, a war crime, a crime against humanity or an act of genocide, depending on the gravity and intention of the act. The same should apply for the destruction of homes,” he continued.
“The systematic and indiscriminate leveling of entire neighborhoods through explosive weapons — as happened in Aleppo, and Mariupol, and Grozny, and towns in Myanmar, or most acutely these days, in Gaza — should be considered a crime against humanity,” wrote Rajagopal.
One U.N. official has called for that to change. In an opinion piece published last month in the New York Times, the United Nations’ special envoy on the right to adequate housing called for codifying domicide into international humanitarian law.
In the context of major conflict, the word “domicide” is being used more often. It has also been used in non-violent contexts, such as when homes were destroyed in Canada in order to make way for the construction of hydroelectric dams.
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The destruction and destruction of 200,000 housing units in Gaza, the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
As of early February, more than 70,000 housing units in Gaza have been destroyed and nearly 300,000 have been damaged, OCHA reports. It represents 40% of all housing units in the Gaza Strip.
“This is the house of a family, of the saving, the livelihood, the dreams and the future of people,” Azzouz said. When the world’s gaze does not focus on what’s happened, the people still grieve and suffer for it, because it was their lost life and time.
Nearly 30% of the territory’s population is covered by that total. And “many more” will be unable to return home immediately due to damage to infrastructure and the danger of unexploded ordnance, the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says.