Free Gaza From Hamas!

From Facebook:

“Let's learn the facts about the Gaza Strip:”

Amit Arad Wrote:

Israel conquered the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula in 1967 from Egypt. Yes, from Egypt, in case anyone thought for a moment that it was "Palestinian" territory, in a war that broke out against the backdrop of the alliance between Egypt and Syria with the aim of destroying Israel.

In the peace agreement with Egypt in 1979, Egypt refused to take back the Gaza Strip.

In the Oslo Accords of 1995, the Palestinian Authority received autonomy over most of the Gaza Strip, which included all the Arab settlements in the Strip.

Subsequently, Israel completely left the Gaza Strip in 2005, and it then came under the full control of the Palestinian Authority.

Since 2006, the Gaza Strip has been controlled by Hamas after a combination of elections, military takeover, and the elimination and murder of members of the Palestinian Authority.

Since 2006, Hamas has economically and militarily controlled Gaza, collecting taxes, managing all international aid and funds from Arab countries while investing most resources and funds solely in military development:

no factories,

no improvement and development of desperately needed water, sewage, and electricity infrastructures in Gaza,

no advanced studies,

no civilian industry.

 

What does Hamas do?!

Yes to the weapons industry and an immense stockpiling of missiles and rockets,

yes to endless combat tunnels which could have been used to build and rehabilitate all of Gaza's infrastructures,

yes to luxurious lives for Hamas leaders living abroad, yes to a blood covenant with Iran and striving for the destruction of the State of Israel,

yes to financing terrorists and terror attacks from Gaza and from Judea and Samaria,

yes to smuggling industry and black market at the expense of the citizens of Gaza.

 

Since 2007 and intermittently to this day, Gaza under Hamas has been firing missiles and rockets at cities and communities in Israel.

As a result, every few years Israel is forced to launch a military operation against Gaza, while in between there are cease-fire agreements that are quickly violated by Gaza with the renewal of missile and rocket fire towards Israel.

The peak of the attacks from Gaza occurred on October 7, 2023, when thousands of armed people invaded from Gaza into Israel, attacked about 20 civilian settlements, murdered 1,400 Israelis, raped and maimed with cruelty, and kidnapped 240 children, women, and elderly. This attack, which constitutes a war crime according to international law and by which Israel is entitled to retaliate, indeed forced Israel to strike Gaza again.

The Gaza Strip has shared borders with Israel and Egypt. Since 2007, when it realized that Hamas was striving to destroy it, Israel has been preventing the entry of weapons into the Gaza Strip. This is the background to the "siege" on Gaza, a siege against the introduction of missiles, rockets, artillery, and explosives, not against the introduction of food, medicine, and commerce.

 

Israel, of course, is not responsible for the border of the Gaza Strip with Egypt, but the Egyptians also fear the terrorist intentions of Hamas and therefore prevent the entry of weapons into the Gaza Strip. If the Egyptians prevent the entry and exit of goods or want to tax them - that is between them and Gaza, not related to Israel.

Since 2006, Hamas, as mentioned, has been responsible for and managing Gaza, but it does not even try to develop it economically. The world and Arab countries have transferred billions of dollars to Gaza over the years, but Hamas has used them for the enrichment of its leaders and for military purposes of the arms industry and the establishment of an underground city of military tunnels.

Not only does Israel not prevent Gaza from developing economically for civilian purposes, it assists the economy of Gaza by providing work for thousands of workers, who during peaceful days would enter Israel and earn ten to twenty times more than what they get in Gaza, and in the supply of electricity and water.

But of course, the entry of workers, the supply of electricity and water, stop every time the fighting resumes due to Gaza's attacks on Israel, and of course, Gaza and its people are harmed as a result of each round of fighting, but the full responsibility for this lies with Hamas / Gaza who attack Israel again and again and strive for its destruction.

The artificial and misleading distinction sometimes made between Hamas and Gaza, as if Israel is fighting Hamas and not Gaza, is that most residents of Gaza supported and elected Hamas in the only elections held in Gaza in 2006. One can assume that some residents of Gaza very much regret their choice of Hamas, which enslaved and dragged the residents of Gaza into poverty, unemployment, backwardness, and hopeless and endless fighting, but in the absence of freedom of expression and free media in Gaza, it is impossible to know the true level of support for Hamas in Gaza today.

It's not possible to discuss the situation in Gaza without mentioning the Islamic Jihad Organization: a terror organization consisting of thousands of fighters in Gaza, manufacturing and smuggling weapons, funded and subordinate to Iran, and operating alongside Hamas, ostensibly not subject to it even though Hamas ostensibly controls Gaza. Islamic Jihad does not see itself as bound by the cease-fire agreements between Hamas and Israel, nor by the Oslo Accords. It explicitly aims for the destruction of Israel and denies any negotiations or political settlement. Like Hezbollah is an independent and separate organization in Lebanon under Iran, so is Islamic Jihad.

This allows Hamas to play a double game, where it's convenient to be the ruler of Gaza, and when it's convenient, missile fire or another terror attack is not related to it but to Islamic Jihad.

Any solution and hope for Gaza must be based on the premise that Gaza is one entity for better or worse: receiving support and assistance for economic development, but any attack from it triggers sanctions against Gaza, not against this or that organization within Gaza. Whoever controls Gaza must be fully responsible for it and not allow independent military organizations to operate alongside it.

In conclusion, the result of Hamas's rule in Gaza is a difficult economic situation, high unemployment, inadequate infrastructure, despair, and hatred, and repeated cycles of war, all of which occurred due to terror attacks from Gaza towards Israel.

So yes, #freePalestine is a catchy slogan, but it has no connection to the war between Israel and Gaza.

The solution and hope for the people of Gaza lie in #freeGazafromHamas and in the economic and civilian development of Gaza without cycles of war.

^ I couldn’t have explained all of this better.

Anti-Jewish Protesters around the World conveniently forget that NO Arab or Muslim Country (Egypt, Jordan, etc.) has wanted anything to do with Gaza or Hamas since 2006.

Even the Palestinian Authority that rules The West Bank has not had and doesn't want to have anything to do with Gaza or Hamas since 2006.

It is not ONLY about Hamas vs. Israel.

It is about Hamas vs. the Arabs.

It is about Hamas vs. the Palestinians.

It is about Hamas vs. the World.

Free Gaza From Hamas! ^