"Hamas officials are living in luxury, oblivious to the people's plight!"
On November 6, 2021, amid reports about the drowning of the Gazan migrants off the Turkish coast, the official Facebook page of the "We Want to Live" campaign posted a message addressed to the Hamas "leaders in Gaza," demanding that they stop ignoring the people's suffering, and warning that, if the situation does not improve, protests will break out in the streets.
The message said: "This is an announcement by the Palestinian 'We Want to Live' popular protest movement. Like all Palestinian citizens in Gaza, we have been following the anguished cries of our oppressed young people, who found themselves helpless at sea without a compass, clinging to a faint spark of hope that they could not find in their homeland…
Only a stony-hearted person, whose flame of humanity has been extinguished… can ignore these cries. Who will condemn the heroic Gazan leaders… who [drive] SUVs, whose residences have become like palaces, and who, [like Ghazi Hamad's son,] give wedding presents such as airline tickets and invitations [to stay] at hotels in the most luxurious tourism resorts[?]
In the words of [Iraqi] poet [Ahmed Matar]: 'Don't leave the people hungry. Protect them, for when people are hungry, they behave like ferocious beasts.'
"O leaders of Gaza, the public can no longer stand the deprivation.
The levels of poverty and unemployment, and the poor living conditions, are not [just] statistics that allow you to whimper at the doors of the donors, [begging for] support that does not [eventually] benefit the people or improve their lives.
The ongoing conduct of the government in Gaza proves without a doubt that the leader in his ivory tower does not see the people, and that he is almost completely out of touch with their reality.
Based on the above, we remind the leader of Gaza, Mr. Yahya Sinwar, of his past promises to respect the right of nonviolent protest and free speech. The sincerity of that promise will be put to the test in the coming days…"
Picture: Photo posted on Facebook of Muhammad Ghazi Hamad's wedding gift to his brother (Source Facebook.com hanan.aljaroo, November 6, 2021)