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Beit Lahia, Northern Gaza On the third consecutive day, Hassan Saad, 38, and hundreds of others moved to the streets in Beit Lahia, demanding an end to their suffering and stopping the war on Gaza.

Saad is one of the protest coordinators, and they work with 14 others who say that they automatically gathered to organize the demonstrations.

Saad explains that the main trigger is a discussion on Facebook after issuing new Israeli evacuation orders last Monday.

Saad told Al -Jazeera by phone from Beit Lahia on Thursday: “The nightmare of the displacement was again the main reason that prompted us to do something to demand an end to the war on Gaza.”

“The idea of ​​moving to the streets was born in the protests, which carry signs of immediate end to the war.”

Saad was forced to flee the house of Lahia two months in the Israeli war on Gaza. On January 27, when hundreds of thousands of displaced residents allowed return to northern Gaza, he returned to the ruins of his house.

Saad added that the return to the explosions and the evacuation notifications from the Israeli army were more than the members of the Facebook group.

He attributes the response to the feeling of abandoning the Palestinians, because the world, with its words, left them to confront displacement, starvation, killing, bombing and arrests alone.

On Tuesday, videos began to appear on social media for hundreds of people in Gaza, especially in Beit Lahia, chanting against the war and calling for Hamas to step down.

“We raise our children, just to lose them”

The demand for Hamas to abandon power was not an official goal, instead, that the invitation was automatically from the demonstrators.

Saad added: “It is difficult to control the opinions of people during the protests, especially when they are exhausted and frustrated strongly.”

“People demand from an unbearable fact … If the end of the war requires enthusiasm to step aside, then be that.”

However, Saad added that he refuses any political exploitation of the protests to attack Hamas and the Palestinian resistance.

“Whether we agree or disagree with Hamas, it is in the end a part of our people … they are not from another planet,” he added.

Commenting on the protests, a member of the Hamas political office at Facebook said: “Everyone has the right to scream with pain and raise their voice against aggression against our people and betray our nation.

“Whether our people have moved to the streets or not, we are part of them and they are part of us,” continued, we condemn any exploitation of the situation, “whether that will enhance the tables of doubtful political actions or the deviation of responsibility from the criminal aggressor, the occupation and its army.”

A man in the fifties is wearing a light jacket
Hisham Baroy protested in Beit Lahia, Gaza, on March 26, 2025 [Abdelhakim Abu Riash, Al Jazeera]

With the distribution of pictures of demonstrations in the Beit Lahia, commentators inside and outside Gaza gave various interpretations.

Some see that they are a natural expression of the majority demands – an end to Israel’s extermination against Gaza.

Others focused on Hamas’s invitation to abandon control of the tape and allow restructuring to facilitate the end of the war.

Montehir Al-Hayek, a spokesman for Gaza, wrote in a light competitor-the political opponent of Hamas, who dominates the Palestinian Authority (PA)-on Facebook, and urged Hamas to “pay attention to the voice of the people” and step down, allowing the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization responsible.

On the Israeli side, Israeli military spokesman Avichai Adri expressed his support for the protests, and put them in their framing as being a fight.

In Gaza, these different tires planted a confusion about the motives of the demonstrations, but the organizers-and the Parwi-insist that the basic demand end the war.

Hisham Baroy, 52, who is a participant in the protest, said on the island on Wednesday that, in contrast to media claims, they did not “lead” to the streets by any external forces.

“We are here to say:” enough persecution and death. “Every two years, we pass through wars.

“We build our homes, only to be bombed in seconds. We are exhausted … we are only human!” Baroy shouted.

“Hamas … we do not hate them. But I invite them to step down. Their 18 -year -old rule was full of wars and escalation. We want to live in peace.”

Mahmoud Jihad Al -Hajj Ahmed, 34, a doctor at Kamal Adwan Hospital, in a gray jacket
Mahmoud Jihad Al -Hajj Ahmed, 34, is a doctor at Kamal Adwan Hospital, [Abdelhakim Abu Riash, Al Jazeera]

“We just want to live.”

The march was near Barwa Mahmoud Jihad Al -Hajj Ahmed, 34, a doctor at Kamal Adwan Hospital.

He said: “Our protests are independent. We want the war to stop. We refuse to be our lives gambling with anything else.”

“We need humanitarian help. We need border crossings to open. We need a decent life.”

Hajj Ahmad narrated Israel killing his parents and sister, but he had no time for sadness, as his work in the hospital consumed until the day that the Israeli army forced him to leave.

He said: “We have a lot of children and young people who are ampute … Many of the injured people who need to travel for treatment, but they were prevented from leaving.”

“It is cruel.”

With regard to invitations to Hamas to abandon power, Haji Ahmed said that if Hamas is recessing will reduce the suffering of people, he will support this without hesitation.

“This requires giving priority to the largest public interest. Suffering is unbearable,” he said.

A bald man in an arranged shirt looks directly to the camera.
Saeed Falafel, 60, a resident of Beit Lahia, is participating in the protest on March 26, 2025 [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]

“I think the solution is a completely independent local administration without any political affiliations of Gaza’s rule and get out of this crisis.

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Saad Falafel, 60, was also protesting and demanding the end of the Israel war.

“We want to live. This is our main request,” Saad said.

“If you are walking in the Gaza market, you will not find tomatoes or one egg. We are starving and killing in every possible way. Within a week, we will be in the grip of great famine.

“We do not have an interest in being enemies for anyone. We are civilians who just want to live in peace and have a life worth living. We want a solution to this disaster.

“Anyone in the world has an ounce of humanity and mercy that will feel our pain. Act now to help us.

“We are human.”

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2025-03-28 13:18:00

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