A senior Hamas official praises what he called a “peaceful” protest movement in the Gaza Strip, but said armed factions in the coastal enclave have their fingers on the trigger.
“We are making history with our peacefulness and our peaceful movement,” Fathi Hamad, a hardline Hamas official, says of the protests. “But our hand is on the trigger and we will not take our hand off the trigger.”
Hamad makes the remarks at a funeral for three members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing.
Since March 30, thousands of Palestinians in Gaza have protested along the border fence with Israel to support the return of Palestinian refugees to their ancestral homes in Israel and pressure the Jewish state to lift restrictions on the movement of goods and people in and out of the Strip.
While some protesters have peacefully demonstrated in the border region, others have thrown firebombs and rocks at soldiers, attempted to cross into Israeli territory, launched incendiary kites and balloons into southern Israel, set afire a commercial crossing between the Jewish state and Gaza and carried out other violent acts.
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