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Amnesty International denounces that Hamas pursues and tortures the protesters in Gaza

Amnesty International (AI) mentioned Wednesday that Hamas’s secret providers have intimidated, threatened and harassed, even with interrogations and batteries, civilians who’ve exercised their proper to peaceable protest within the Gaza Strip.

These are complaints collected by AI within the final two months of info produced within the framework of Gazati’s protests by the “Israel Genocide” and the current climbing climbing in Gaza, and that additionally cried towards Hamas, which governs within the enclave.

“These protests have attracted hundreds, if not thousands, from Palestinians. The protesters have chanted slogans and carrying banners criticizing the Gaza authorities led by Hamas, and some people have asked for the end of the Hamas government,” says Amnesty. There have additionally been protests within the Yabalia refugee camp, within the neighborhood of Shuja’iya in Ciudad de Gaza and Jan Yunis.

The Director of Research, Political Incidence and Campaigns of AI, Erika Guevara-Rosas, requested the Hamas authorities to “immediately end all repressive measures against the Palestinians who bravely and openly express their opposition to Hamas’s practices in Gaza.”

“The reports on beatings, threats and interrogations are extremely alarming and constitute serious violations of the right to freedom of expression and peaceful meeting,” added the accountable, who thought-about “aberrant and shameful” that to the “atrocities” that these intimidations are concerned within the strip.

The human rights group spoke with greater than a dozen individuals who participated within the protests and informed them that after collaborating, there have been individuals who had been cited exterior the common protocol and hit them with sticks and in some circumstances threatened to kill them. “The security forces came threatening and hitting us, accusing us of being traitors, just for protest,” says one of many testimonies.

In one other, he tells himself as one other younger man hit her neck with sticks, they shouted him, they accused him of a traitor and collaborating with Israeli intelligence: “I lost my family in one of the worst massacres of this war; five brothers and their children were killed. It is horrible that they point to you as a collaborator, that they question your patriotism, after your family willing to get your family,” he says.

The majority of the testimonies additionally report that they had been notified and threatened in order that they’d not return to protest. Amnesty International recalled that since Hamas got here to energy in 2007 within the Gaza Strip, he established a parallel safety system and imposed restrictions on protests, particularly in 2019 when he commonly arrested dissidents to torture them.

“Even during Israel’s ongoing genocide, Hamas’s security services continued to restore freedom of expression, even crossing out traitors who criticized them,” mentioned the group, based mostly in London. (EFE)