After more than 500 days of Israeli mass bombardment, starvation, destruction of civilian infrastructure and thousands of housing units, and after two weeks of its most recent renewed assault following the breakdown of the ceasefire, Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip witnessed the first protest by Palestinians demanding Hamas to unconditionally release the remaining Israeli captives and give up control of Gaza. Meanwhile, the U.S. envoy to the Middle East repeated once more last week that Hamas must play no role in the future of Gaza for the war to end, in line with Israel’s official position of wanting to dismantle Hamas’s civil and political control of the Strip. On Wednesday, the U.S. State Department’s spokesperson, Tammy Bruce, repeatedly replied to journalists’ questions about the killing of Palestinian journalists that the fault for all the suffering of Gaza’s people lies solely with Hamas, and that Hamas should accept to disarm, give up control of Gaza, and release the remaining Israeli captives before there is an end of the war.
Author: Qassam Muaddi
Published at: 2025-03-29 13:00:00
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