{"id":1986441,"date":"2023-07-30T20:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T00:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hamas-scrambles-to-disperse-event-as-thousands-under-their-rule-rise-up\/"},"modified":"2023-07-30T20:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T00:22:23","slug":"hamas-scrambles-to-disperse-event-as-thousands-under-their-rule-rise-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hamas-scrambles-to-disperse-event-as-thousands-under-their-rule-rise-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas rushes to disperse uprising as thousands rebel."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhamas-scrambles-to-disperse-event-as-thousands-under-their-rule-rise-up%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1986441&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Hamas Scrambles to Disperse \u2063Event as Thousands Under Their Rule\u200d Rise Up<\/h2>\n<p>Several thousand people\u200c briefly\u2063 took to the streets across \u2062the \u200bGaza \u200dStrip on Sunday to protest chronic power outages and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sudan-factions-agree-to-72-hour-ceasefire-as-foreigners-are-evacuated\/\" title=\"Sudan Factions Agree to 72-Hour Ceasefire as Foreigners Are Evacuated\">difficult living conditions<\/a>, providing\u200d a rare public \u200dshow of discontent with the territory\u2019s\u200b Hamas government. Hamas security forces \u2064quickly dispersed \u200dthe gatherings.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhere is the electricity \u2063and where is\u200b the gas?\u201d the crowds shouted in Khan Younis. \u2064\u201cWhat a shame. What a shame.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Marches took\u2062 place in\u200c Gaza City, the\u2062 southern town of Khan Younis and other\u2064 locations, chanting \u201cwhat a shame\u201d and in one place burning Hamas flags, before police moved in and broke up the \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-music-festival-shut-band-protests-anti-gay-laws-lead-singers-stage-move\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Police destroyed mobile phones of people who were filming in Khan Younis, and\u200d witnesses\u200d said there were several arrests. Dozens\u200c of young supporters and opponents of Hamas briefly faced off, throwing stones at one another.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations were organized\u2062 by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hamas-scrambles-to-disperse-event-as-thousands-under-their-rule-rise-up\/\" title=\"Hamas rushes to disperse uprising as thousands rebel.\">grassroots online movement \u2062called \u201calvirus alsakher<\/a>,\u201d or \u201cthe mocking virus.\u201d It was not immediately known who is behind the movement.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas rules Gaza with an iron fist, barring most demonstrations and quickly \u2062stamping \u2064out public displays of\u2064 dissent.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic militant group seized control of \u200dGaza in 2007\u200c from the forces of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, prompting Israel and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-egypt-reveals-radar-tools-led-new-discovery-inside-great-pyramid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Egypt<\/a> to impose a crippling blockade on\u2062 the territory. Israel says\u200c the closure is needed \u2064to\u200c prevent Hamas, which does\u2064 not recognize Israel\u2019s right to exist, from building up its military capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The closure has devastated Gaza\u2019s \u2062economy, sent unemployment skyrocketing and led to frequent \u2062power\u200d outages. During the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/10000-cattle-die-in-kansas-amid-food-shortage-crisis\/\" title=\"10,000 Cattle Die in Kansas amid Food Shortage Crisis\">current heat wave<\/a>, people have been receiving four to six hours of power a\u200d day due to heavy demand.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Protesters also criticized Hamas for deducting a\u2062 roughly $15\u2062 fee from monthly $100 stipends given to Gaza\u2019s poorest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kennedy-family-put-blast-treating-rfk-jr-mark-totalitarian-systems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">families<\/a> by the wealthy\u2063 Gulf state of Qatar.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There \u200cwas no immediate comment from the Hamas authorities.<\/p>\n<h3>The Western Journal has \u2063reviewed this Associated Press story and may have altered it prior to publication to ensure that it \u200bmeets our editorial standards.<\/h3>\n<p>The post \u2063 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-hamas-scrambles-disperse-event-thousands-rule-rise\/\">Hamas Scrambles to Disperse Event as Thousands Under \u200cTheir Rule Rise Up<\/a> appeared first \u200don <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>other areas of the Gaza Strip, with protesters demanding an end to the ongoing power shortages and improved living conditions. Despite the swift intervention of Hamas security forces, the demonstrations served as a rare display of public dissatisfaction towards the ruling government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":1986442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1986442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}