The uprising by Palestinians in Gaza against Hamas continues. Palestinians in Gaza Are Uprising Against Hamas https://www.patheos.com/blogs/kermi...estinians-in-gaza-are-uprising-against-hamas/ The war in Gaza continues despite a temporary cease-fire that failed. Donald Trump, the former real estate mogul and now U.S. president, last month called for an outlandish proposal for solving the Gaza war if not the larger conflict between Palestinians and the State of Israel—to remove Palestinians from Gaza and turn the place into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” And this week he has called for them to be removed to Libya. Uprising in Beit Layiha The Wall Street Journal (“In Gaza, Long-Suffering Palestinians Are Directing Their Anger at Hamas”) reports today about a recent Palestinian uprising centered in Beit Lahiya, a city with a significant farming community of about 100,000 people in North Gaza. Thousands have taken to the streets in recent days voicing their anger at Hamas. Until then, Hamas had powerfully suppressed Gazan dissent; but no more. Thirty-seven year old Palestinian Hamza-al-Masri reports from Turkey on his social media platforms with 1.2 million followers, “I consider myself the voice of [these] protests. Hamas has terrorized people.” Masri used to be a Palestinian terrorist in Gaza; but no more. “Hamas Doesn’t Care” about Palestinian “Lives or Suffering” Palestinian Dr. Mkhaimar Abusada, a political science professor with Al-Azhar University and visiting professor at Northwestern University in the U.S., explains, “The general feeling among Palestinians all over Gaza, not just Beit Lahiya, is that Hamas doesn’t care about their [Gazan] lives or suffering. … that Hamas cares more about its own survival.” Yes, I’ve read that many Hamas leaders reason that their mission is most important because if it ends, they believe there never will be a Palestinian state. Last month, the Israel Defense Forces dropped leaflets on Beit Lahiya warning residents to flee because they were about to bomb that area. Of course, they had bombed it many times before. Professor Abusada thus explains of these more wealthy Palestinians, “They’ve lost a lot of their wealth, … their cultivated land in this Israeli assault. That’s why they are speaking out loudly against Hamas.” Gazan Support of Hamas Has Dropped Drastically The foremost Palestinian polling nonprofit is the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, located in the large Palestinian city of Ramallah in the West Bank. It has polled Gazans in the past, showing that about 70% have supported the Hamas mission in Gaza; but no more. They recently polled Gazans to learn that that figure is now at about 30% and is decreasing weekly if not daily. Israel in recent days carried through with its warning by bombing the Beit Lahiya area again. The WSJ article says an anonymous Palestinian activist explains concerning the recent and growing protests in Beit Lahiya against Hamas, “The fear barrier was broken when the [Israeli] evacuation orders came.”