Gazan protesters decry occupation, urge national unity
Demonstrators call for ending 12-year rift between rival Palestinian factions Hamas, Fatah
By Mohamed Majed
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) - Hundreds of Palestinians on Friday converged along the fraught Gaza-Israel buffer zone to take part in ongoing rallies against Israel’s decades-long occupation.
In a statement, the National Authority for Breaking the Siege (comprised of several Gaza-based resistance groups) urged Palestinians to take part in Friday’s rally, which was held under the slogan “National unity and an end to division”.
Since 2007, the Palestinian political scene has been marred by division between rival factions Hamas and Fatah -- despite several attempts at reconciliation.
Protesters in Gaza demand the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in historical Palestine from which they were driven in 1948 to make way for the new state of Israel.
They also demand an end to Israel’s 12-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has gutted the coastal enclave’s economy and deprived its roughly two million inhabitants of many basic commodities.
*Writing by Mahmoud Barakat
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