Palestinians Are Getting Fed Up With Hamas for Wretched Conditions
Palestinian protesters march with a Palestinian flag during a demonstration at the border fence with Israel in Gaza on March 22.
Photographer: Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images
It was a rare sight in Gaza: a woman daring to publicly denounce Hamas — not Israel — for the wretched conditions in the isolated Palestinian enclave.
“Our sons and daughters have lost 12 years of their lives, and for what?” Mervat al-Buheisi, 52, railed during a protest on March 15, referring to the time that’s elapsed since the militant group took over the coastal territory. “Each son of a Hamas official owns an apartment, a car, a jeep, a building” while “our sons have nothing,” she said in a widely shared video, earning the family a late night raid from Hamas forces who arrested her husband and son. “These officials don’t care about the needs of the poor.”