Hamas attacks Gazans to evict them from their homes and strip them of their land

Corruption and mismanagement of public funds is one of the most controversial topics in the Palestinian territories in general and in the Gaza Strip in particular. The accusations of abuse of power and waste of public funds reach the leaders of the Hamas movement, who control the scene there.

Fourteen years after the bloody coup d’état carried out by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which led to its takeover of the Strip and the expulsion of Fatah and the Liberation Organization from it and its relocation to the West Bank. Gaza is living in isolation and in a bitter reality governed by deprivation, poverty, corruption, tyranny and oppression, as well as economic and social conditions that can be described as tragic, according to international reports.

Many see Hamas as a corrupt entity whose officials live in abject wealth and monopolize privileges in the Gaza Strip, while the rest of the Palestinians experience a double standard of living, with poverty affecting one in three Palestinian households and unemployment exceeding 50% of the total workforce.

In recent years, scandals have appeared that have shaken Palestinians’ confidence in the leadership of the movement and its slogans “struggle”, such as the cases of manipulation of international aid, such as the scandal of the Omani grant earmarked for the reconstruction of a number of destroyed houses in the Gaza Strip, and the case of falsification of the Hajj statements, which affected the former Minister of Religious Endowments, Ismail Radwan, as the name of his son Anas was passed within the Saudi Royal Honor for Palestine Pilgrims.

The latest of these scandals is the displacement Hamas is carrying out these days in Gaza, after they demolished houses belonging to the residents of the city of Rafah in the south of the Strip and arrested a number of them, on the pretext that the land is owned by the government. This was shown in a video published by the Saudi journalist, Hussein Al-Ghawi.

In the video, an elderly Palestinian sitting on the ground in the rubble of houses, bitterly speaking about what he had been exposed to after taking his land from him, shows documents proving his ownership of the land and that it is not state-owned as Hamas claims.

The man said: this land has payments in the financial sector…. 1128 these papers are proven everywhere. We say that the land is government land, which government land is this land, this land is in the treasury government land? How did this land become government land?

He went on to denounce: If this land is government land then all Rafah land is state land, and there is no ownership land, there is no ownership in Rafah, if it is government land.

The man pointed out a number of papers in his hands. This is a land that has been fixed to finance for 200 years ago, owned by Abu Rabaa 200 years ago, and it is registered in the name of Abu Rabaa.

He wondered: They say government land, how did it become government land? By what right did it become a government land? If this is government land then all Rafah land is government land, what do we have ownership of in Rafah? This is a shame and an injustice, this is slander.