In Gaza
Women on one side, men on the other: Katiba Square, located in the heart of Gaza City, was crowded on Wednesday, December 14, reports a witness on the spot.
Several thousand Hamas activists had converged there to attend the grand ceremony marking the 35th anniversary of the creation of this movement from the Muslim Brotherhood.
Still considered a terrorist by the European Union and the United States, Hamas, which has held the Gaza Strip since 2007, intended to show its popularity and strength as a new government prepared to take over. power in Israel.
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Behind the platform, where military parades followed one another and speeches by senior officials, had been deployed a huge banner.
You could see the al-Aqsa Mosque, the Dome of the Rock and the walls of Jerusalem.
A tide of green banners, above which floated the Iranian, Turkish, Egyptian, Qatari flags, was represented there, engulfing...
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