According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, people in Gaza have made a Facebook call for an Egypt-type uprising against the Hamas regime there.
It is impossible to tell from a distance whether a Facebook call represents only a few individuals with no audience, or something with real weight. But, anyway, Haaretz reports:
A Facebook group created by anonymous people is calling on Palestinians to take part in a mass protest against Hamas in the Gaza Strip tomorrow.
The page, titled Honour Revolution (Thauret al-Karama, in Arabic ), is urging Gazans to take to the street after Muslim Friday prayers to topple the de-facto government of the Islamist movement.
"The young people of the beloved Gaza Strip will carry out a grand act that will change the face of history," a message posted on the page reads. "We derived our inspiration from the revolutions in green Tunisia and Egypt of the pharaohs, which joined the struggle for freedom," it says.
By yesterday afternoon, 2,338 people had joined the group, whose stated aim is to end the split between Gaza and the West Bank, which came about in June 2007 after Hamas seized sole control of the Strip.
Eighteen months prior to that, Hamas won parliamentary elections, sparking a fierce power struggle with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his secular Fatah party.
The Facebook page, in Arabic only, appealed to the Hamas security forces not to use violence against the demonstrators.
"We will go out to end the split and gain back our national unity in a peaceful way. Our message to you: Don't cover your hands with our pure blood," the group said. "Don't obey your masters, the owners of the villas, the apartments, the lands, the cars and the jeeps."
The group added that the protests throughout Gaza would be a "pure popular revolution" of all political affiliations.
"It is the revolution of the mosques, the churches, the factories, the universities, the schools, the unemployed and the Internet cafes," organizers declared.
Fatah supporters were said to be among those Facebook users who launched the initiative.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/anonymous-facebook-group-calls-for-uprising-against-hamas-rule-in-gaza-strip-tomorrow-1.342349.
1 comment:
Hamas is something that has already flown in the sink. It's effect is already past. It's time to move on to the next level. Call Egypt
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