GAZA CITY: Gaza has seen regular protests along the Israeli border for the past year, but new demonstrations in recent days have been much less to ...
GAZA CITY: Gaza has seen regular protests along the Israeli border for the past year, but new demonstrations in recent days have been much less to the liking of the strip's rulers Hamas.
"The long-suffering people of Gaza were protesting the dire economic situation and demanded an improvement in the quality of life in the Gaza Strip," said Mladenov, envoy to Israel and the Palestinian territories.The protests are a rare internal challenge to Hamas, which has fought three wars with Israel since 2008.
In response to the protests, hundreds of people have been at least temporarily detained, according to rights groups, while a number have talked of arbitrary beatings at the hands of Hamas forces. A senior member of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah, Hamas's rivals, was badly beaten near his home Monday evening.
"But we will not allow them to be exploited in order to provoke chaos and sabotage," he said, adding Hamas believed calm had been restored.Hind Khoudary, Amnesty International's researcher in Gaza, said she was called in by Hamas security Monday morning for what she was told would be a basic five-minute meeting.
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