Gaza Strip – Gaza Landlords Refusing To Rent To Hamas, Official Says

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    FILE - Head of the Political Bureau of Palestinian Movement Hamas Khaled Meshaal (3-L) Musa Abu Marzouk (2-L), Mohammed Nazzal (3-R) and other unidentified Hamas leader, smile during a press conference in Amman Jordan on 29 January 2012.. EPAGaza – Landlords in the Gaza Strip are refusing to rent apartments to Hamas members and their families, a senior Hamas official revealed on Sunday.

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    Musa Abu Marzouk, a political leader of Hamas based in Egypt who recently toured the Gaza Strip, pointed out that landlords were afraid to rent out their apartments out of fear they would be targeted by Israel in the future.

    “The phenomenon of refusing to rent out homes to families of resistance fighters is a dangerous one,” Abu Marzouk wrote on his Facebook page. “The landlords are punishing the resistance fighters and their families.”

    Palestinians are indebted to those who made sacrifices for their people, who are required to embrace them, he added.

    “This is what the occupation wants by targeting the homes of the resistance fighters,” he said.

    Earlier this month, tenants of a high-rise in Gaza City demanded that Hamas evacuate its offices from their building for the same reason.

    Families living in the Daoud Tower in Gaza City’s Rimal neighborhood handed the Hamas-controlled Interior Ministry a letter asking it to remove its offices from the building, expressing concern that their tower would be targeted by Israel at some point in the future because of the presence of the Hamas offices.

    During Operation Protective Edge, the IDF destroyed three residential towers in Gaza City: Al-Zafer 4, Al-Basha and Italian Complex.

    Content is provided courtesy of the Jerusalem Post


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    9 years ago

    Finally some common sense from Gazans.

    leahle
    leahle
    9 years ago

    I don’t understand it. Those Hamas members made great sacrifices for the people of Gaza by hiding safely in tunnels while the population suffered. Why can’t people just recognize all of the benefit they got from dying for Hamas?

    9 years ago

    Let the beheadings begin!