MembersGaza’s “Peaceful Revolution” is crushed — while the world still pretends Israel is the problem

Hamas moved quickly this week to smother a planned protest movement in Gaza, detaining residents, intimidating organizers, and turning public fear into political control.

The demonstrations, promoted as the “June 26 Peaceful Revolution,” were intended to challenge Hamas’s rule across the Strip. Instead, according to reports, Hamas operatives deployed across Gaza, including near major hospitals, to prevent the protests from gaining momentum. Residents described arrests, street abductions, threats, and religious warnings branding protesters as collaborators — a charge that can carry a death sentence under Hamas rule.

The result was predictable: streets that should have filled with Gazans demanding a different future became “eerily empty,” as Gaza-born analyst Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib observed. Fear did what Hamas designed it to do.

Right this moment, across the Gaza Strip, Hamas’s police, intelligence units, and al‑Qassam Brigade militias are fully deployed to crush the June 26 protests planned by civilians who want to voice their opposition to the group’s authoritarian, fascistic rule....

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