Mudar Zahran September 19, 2014
Mudar
Zahran is a Palestinian writer and academic from Jordan, who resides in the UK.
"If
Hamas does not like you for any reason all they have to do now is say you are a
Mossad agent and kill you." — A., a Fatah member in Gaza.
"Hamas
wanted us butchered so it could win the media war against Israel showing our
dead children on TV and then get money from Qatar." — T., former Hamas
Ministry officer.
"They
would fire rockets and then run away quickly, leaving us to face Israeli bombs
for what they did." — D., Gazan journalist.
"Hamas
imposed a curfew: anyone walking out in the street was shot. That way people had to stay in their homes, even if they were
about to get bombed. Hamas held the whole Gazan population as a human
shield." — K., graduate student
"The
Israeli army allows supplies to come in and Hamas steals them. It seems even
the Israelis care for us more than Hamas." — E., first-aid volunteer.
"We
are under Hamas occupation, and if you ask most of us, we would rather be under
Israeli occupation… We miss the days when we were able to work inside Israel
and make good money. We miss the security and calm Israel provided when it was
here." — S., graduate of an American university, former Hamas sympathizer.
While
the world's media has been blaming Israel for the death of Gazan civilians
during Operation Protective Edge, this correspondent decided to speak with
Gazans themselves to hear what they had to say.
They
spoke of Hamas atrocities and war
crimes implicating
Hamas in the civilian deaths of its own people.
Although
Gazans, fearful of Hamas's revenge against them, were afraid to speak to the
media, friends in the West Bank offered introductions to relatives in Gaza.
One, a renowned Gazan academic, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that
as soon as someone talked to a Western journalist, he was immediately
questioned by Hamas and accused of "communicating with the Mossad".
"Hamas makes sure that the average Gazan will not talk to Western
journalists -- or actually any journalists at all," he said, continuing:
"Hamas does not want the truth about Gaza to come out. Hamas
terrorizes and kills us just like Daesh [ISIS] terrorizes kills Iraqis. Hamas is a dictatorship that kills us. The Gazans you see praising Hamas on TV are either Hamas members or too afraid to speak against Hamas. Few foreign [Western] journalists were probably able to report what Gazans think of Hamas."
terrorizes and kills us just like Daesh [ISIS] terrorizes kills Iraqis. Hamas is a dictatorship that kills us. The Gazans you see praising Hamas on TV are either Hamas members or too afraid to speak against Hamas. Few foreign [Western] journalists were probably able to report what Gazans think of Hamas."
Many more comments in the full report at http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4706/gazan-hamas-war-crimes#
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