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Hamas faces growing public dissent as Gaza war erodes support
BBC News ^ | July 4, 2024 | Lucy Williamson & Rushdi Aboualouf

Posted on 07/04/2024 9:33:23 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

The man in the video is beside himself, a mask of anguish radiating through his bloodied face. “I am an academic doctor,” he says, “I had a good life, but we have a filthy [Hamas] leadership. They got used to our bloodshed, may God curse them! They are scum!” The video - unthinkable before the Gaza war - was filmed outside a hospital, inundated with hundreds of Palestinian casualties after an Israeli operation to free hostages from central Gaza last month.

Seconds before the video ends, he turns to the crowd. “I’m one of you,” he says, “but you are a cowardly people. We could have avoided this attack!” The video went viral. And it’s not the only one.

Open criticism of Hamas has been growing in Gaza, both on the streets and online. Some have publicly criticised Hamas for hiding the hostages in apartments near a busy marketplace, or for firing rockets from civilian areas. Residents have told the BBC that swearing and cursing against the Hamas leadership is now common in the markets, and that some drivers of donkey carts have even nicknamed their animals after the Hamas leader in Gaza - Yahya Sinwar - urging the donkeys forward with shouts of "Yallah, Sinwar!"

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1 posted on 07/04/2024 9:33:23 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Doesn’t matter. Biden has Hamas’s back...


2 posted on 07/04/2024 9:36:27 AM PDT by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Good news! May more and more Palestinians see the light!

May it be so!


3 posted on 07/04/2024 9:37:44 AM PDT by Sunsong
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To: MinorityRepublican

Yeah, and this guy was likely an enthusiastic supporter of hamas right up until hamas caused this mess.

Pay attention American Democrats, the parallel is there if you will only look.


4 posted on 07/04/2024 9:40:57 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: MinorityRepublican; Sunsong

People Got To Be Free - The Rascals

“All the world over, so easy to see
People everywhere just wanna be free (wanna be free)
I can’t understand it, so simple to me (it is)
People everywhere just got to be free..”


5 posted on 07/04/2024 9:41:10 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Don’t fall for this.


6 posted on 07/04/2024 10:11:54 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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A lone voice in the wilderness and he is now most likely murdered…🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱


7 posted on 07/04/2024 10:11:55 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

8 posted on 07/04/2024 10:17:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

In other news:

“An ‘academic doctor’ whose body was found bloodied curbside on a gaza street is making international news for his viral video condemning both hamas and gazans for the bloodshed.”


9 posted on 07/04/2024 11:11:57 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: rrrod

Don’t be so quick to discount this. People get tired of war relatively quickly and if it’s true it just proves that Netanyahu’s strategy IS working and Biden’s push for capitulation is wrongheaded.


10 posted on 07/04/2024 11:15:09 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: MinorityRepublican

gazans are most likely upset that hamas is losing

their replacement will be more of the same


11 posted on 07/04/2024 11:29:11 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: MinorityRepublican

TOO LITTLE

TOO LATE

NOT SINCERE ENOUGH FOR ME


12 posted on 07/04/2024 2:39:21 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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