Terrorism not only against Israel: Hamas has declared war on the owners of the stalls and peddlers in the Gaza Strip.
Precisely in the middle of the month of Ramadan, an economically important period for the vendors' livelihood, Hamas chose to turn the owners of the bastions in Khan Yunis into an attack.
Although this is not the first time that Hamas has had to deal with the "peddler phenomenon", such plays have not been seen for long in the markets in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas policemen were deployed in a market in the center of Khan Yunis and launched an operation to remove the hawkers, and it was not a matter of delivering reports or announcing a request for evacuation. On them in advance.
Hamas policemen were seen chasing the peddlers and breaking their bones, mercilessly.
The police beat them violently and wounded several of them.
The clashes were documented and uploaded to the networks, and arrests were also reported.
Some of the hawkers are unemployed academics and university graduates, who have not found work in their field and have turned to the hawker market to make a living.
The difficult economic situation in the Gaza Strip is not enough, the owners of the shelters in the Gaza Strip are now forced to endure physical harassment as well.
Several human rights organizations have condemned the excessive use of force by Hamas police.
Criticism of the violent behavior of the police and the damage to the vendors' source of livelihood arose in the critical days before Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that marks the month of Ramadan.
Hamas critics claim that the organization is "strong over the weak": while threatening Israel and stopping rocket launchers in the Gaza Strip, Hamas is using its power and using repression against its residents.
"If the Hamas leadership thinks that in the guise of the resistance flag, it can protect its government from street anger, it is wrong," said Hassan Asfur, a former PA minister and member of the Palestinian delegation to talks with Israel, in a critical article in Hamas.
Some believe to this day that what ignited the "Arab Spring" was the harassment of Tunisia's vegetable stand owner, Muhammad Boazizi, who later set himself on fire and committed suicide.
In Gaza, too, some of the stall owners are young.
Continued harassment of peddlers could intensify criticism within Gaza against Hamas.
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