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Hamas has launched an industrial‑scale campaign of terror against thousands of Gazans
2026-06-26

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Hamas has launched an industrial‑scale campaign of terror, intimidation, interrogation, and blackmail against thousands of Gazans it suspects of planning to join tomorrow’s June 26 demonstrations against its violent, authoritarian rule. Hospitals across Gaza have been turned into makeshift police stations, interrogation sites, and torture centers. Clan elders are being coerced into issuing statements. Hamas operatives are stealing phones and posting fabricated messages to sabotage the protests. Families are being threatened, people placed under house arrest, and Hamas’s al‑Qassam brigades (the same forces responsible for October 7) have been fully mobilized to reinforce police and intelligence units with explicit shoot‑to‑kill orders.

Meanwhile, the mainstream press is largely absent, apparently because Israel is not involved – so no Jews, no news. And the Western “pro‑Palestine” industry is either celebrating the electoral victories of pro‑Hamas, hard‑left candidates or actively smearing Gaza’s protesters as collaborators undermining the “resistance.” As for the UN, NGOs, and major human‑rights organizations: silence. Not a word for Palestinians risking their lives to say they are done with Hamas’s terror and rule.

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Fatwa Committee of the Association of Muslim Scholars of Palestine has issued a statement declaring that participating in the June 26 anti-Hamas protests is forbidden

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HORRIFIC: The Fatwa Committee of the Association of Muslim Scholars of Palestine has issued a statement declaring that participating in the June 26 anti-Hamas protests is forbidden, accusing protesters of betraying Islam, collaborating with Israel, and calling for them to be publicly denounced.

This is exactly how peaceful dissent is demonized: first by branding ordinary Palestinians as traitors and collaborators, then by creating a religious and political justification to execute and persecute them.

The people planning to protest are not foreign agents. They are Palestinians demanding the right to speak, to live with dignity, and to express their views without fear.
Not a concern of a Muslim Brotherhood caliphate. Why would their subjects think they get secular Western rights now, instead of good old Moslem submission?
Threatening civilians for exercising their right to peaceful expression is unacceptable and disgusting.

What they’re fussing about:
Demonstration organized by dissidents abroad looks to bring crowds into streets Friday to call for better living conditions
[IsraelTimes] On June 18, several dozen people gathered outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, one of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip’s largest medical centers, to protest what they said was the lack of adequate treatment for the many maimed left by the war between Israel and the Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
terror group, which rules the Strip.

In videos posted online, demonstrators were heard speaking out angrily against the powers that be, complaining of corruption and apathy, while carefully avoiding direct criticism of Hamas.

"Nobody cares, not even the Health Ministry," said one amputee. "They are all thieves."

Another protester complained of being blocked from seeking medical care abroad.

"We are not allowed to leave and we will die here, while thieves with money forge medical reports and leave," he said. "This is not [Israel], this is the Health Ministry and the World Health Organization."

The demonstration marked a rare public display of criticism against the governing powers in Gaza, where the Hamas terror group continues to rule the areas where nearly all of the Strip’s approximately two million residents live.

On Friday, demonstrators say they will gather again for a much larger protest against dire conditions in the largely unrehabilitated enclave, an event that organizers say will be the first significant show of public dissatisfaction against Hamas in Gaza since the war with Israel halted in October.

Since early June, anonymous social media accounts operating under the banner of the "June 26 Revolution" and apparently organized by Paleostinians in Gaza and abroad have been calling on Gazooks to take to the streets, seeking to build grassroots momentum.

The hospital protest was promoted by the same accounts, as a precursor to the Friday rally.

"This protest is not supported by any country, nor by the army [the IDF] or any militia," said Hamza al-Huwaiti, a former Gazook who is backing the protests from abroad. "These are simply people who are dissatisfied with the current situation and want to change it."

No specific time or location for the protest has been named, suggesting both wariness among organizers and hopes that sustained demonstrations will spread across the Strip.

It is unclear whether the Friday protest will include more explicit calls against Hamas and whether crowds will indeed show up, particularly due to concerns of how Hamas may react to a show of mass dissent as it looks to reassert control.

Protests against the group are uncommon in Gaza, where those speaking out are liable to be accused of collaborating with Israel and risk deadly retaliation. However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds...
they are not unheard of.

The last major demonstrations began in March 2025, drawing hundreds to the streets in various locations every few days or weeks before the movement dissipated some two months later. At the time, Hamas downplayed the protests and described them as anti-war demonstrations.
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