Public protests against Hamas are rare in Gaza. A clip from the BBC on social media showed a woman in Gaza cursing “the dogs of Hamas” for her suffering before someone can be seen covering her mouth.
There are Palestinians in Gaza who don’t support Hamas, but polls have shown that most in fact do. Or, at least they did, before Hamas brought misery and death to their doors.
A project called “Whispered in Gaza” interviews Palestinians secretly and claims that most do not support Hamas, but says Palestinians are afraid of being killed if they speak out publicly.
In one video, a Palestinian woman says off camera, “If you’re a Gazan citizen who opposes war and says ‘I don’t want war,’ you’re branded a traitor.”
Corey Gil-Shuster, a Canadian Israeli, has also been interviewing Palestinians for his YouTube channel, the “Ask Project” for more than 10 years.
Shuster told us every Palestinian he’s interviewed on camera has backed Hamas. But he also wonders if they were all telling the truth.
“I assume that in a lot of the videos, people are answering me thinking, ‘What is the best thing to say that I will be safe?'” Shuster said.
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