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- The Road to Shambhala
Always encouraging when people begin coming to correct conclusions even if it takes a while.
“I hope that God will destroy you, Hamas, like you destroyed our children,” she yells in a video captured by NBC News crews in Gaza, her anger palpable, tears streaming down her face. Her startled companion reaches to cover her mouth, insisting the woman’s teenage son died a martyr as she quickly ushers her away.
Her comments are a sign of the shifting times: Nearly nine months after , people in Gaza are increasingly voicing frustration with the Islamist group that has governed the Palestinian enclave since 2007, when it wrested power from Fatah, its internationally recognized rivals who still run the occupied West Bank, the larger of two Palestinian territories in the region.
Dissent against Hamas’ rule was once rare in the Gaza Strip, and speaking out remains risky. But the despair and chaos of war has cleaved open a small space for defiance.
Hamas’ popularity in the enclave has sunk considerably in the months since the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel that saw 1,200 people killed and resulted in around .
Only about a fifth of people in the enclave support those attacks, down from nearly half in November, according to polling conducted in May by the West Bank-based Arab World for Research and Development (AWRAD), an independent organization that conducted 1,500 personal surveys across the Palestinian territories.
The poll also showed that Hamas only has the support of about a quarter of residents in the enclave, where the death toll since Oct. 7 passed 38,000 this week, according to Palestinian health officials.
“Hamas popularity among the populace who are actually living now in shelters, in tents and makeshift, you know, communities is declining,” said Nader Said, the polling organization’s president.
In a separate video that went viral after it was posted to social media last month, a man can be seen screaming before a small crowd gathered in front of a hospital in Gaza.
He identifies himself as an academic called Muhammad Judeh. His face and shirt were covered in blood.
“We have a filthy leadership. They got used to our bloodshed,” he said. “May God curse them. They are scum.”
“I hope that God will destroy you, Hamas, like you destroyed our children,” she yells in a video captured by NBC News crews in Gaza, her anger palpable, tears streaming down her face. Her startled companion reaches to cover her mouth, insisting the woman’s teenage son died a martyr as she quickly ushers her away.
Her comments are a sign of the shifting times: Nearly nine months after , people in Gaza are increasingly voicing frustration with the Islamist group that has governed the Palestinian enclave since 2007, when it wrested power from Fatah, its internationally recognized rivals who still run the occupied West Bank, the larger of two Palestinian territories in the region.
Dissent against Hamas’ rule was once rare in the Gaza Strip, and speaking out remains risky. But the despair and chaos of war has cleaved open a small space for defiance.
Hamas’ popularity in the enclave has sunk considerably in the months since the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel that saw 1,200 people killed and resulted in around .
Only about a fifth of people in the enclave support those attacks, down from nearly half in November, according to polling conducted in May by the West Bank-based Arab World for Research and Development (AWRAD), an independent organization that conducted 1,500 personal surveys across the Palestinian territories.
The poll also showed that Hamas only has the support of about a quarter of residents in the enclave, where the death toll since Oct. 7 passed 38,000 this week, according to Palestinian health officials.
“Hamas popularity among the populace who are actually living now in shelters, in tents and makeshift, you know, communities is declining,” said Nader Said, the polling organization’s president.
In a separate video that went viral after it was posted to social media last month, a man can be seen screaming before a small crowd gathered in front of a hospital in Gaza.
He identifies himself as an academic called Muhammad Judeh. His face and shirt were covered in blood.
“We have a filthy leadership. They got used to our bloodshed,” he said. “May God curse them. They are scum.”
