After 17 months of Hamas hijacking aid and endangering its citizens, the people in Gaza have had enough. Hundreds of Arabs poured into the streets of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza on Tuesday to take part in the largest anti-Hamas demonstration since the outbreak of the war.

Viral video footage shows Gazans chanting “For God’s sake, Hamas out,” “Hamas terrorists,” and “We want an end to the war.” Other videos shared on social media captured protesters shouting “out, out, out, Hamas out” and “down with Hamas rule, down with the Muslim Brotherhood rule.”

The protest came just one day after Islamic Jihad terrorists launched rockets at Israel, prompting IDF evacuation orders for large parts of Beit Lahia.

“Hamas is demanding our people to remain steadfast. But how can we remain steadfast when we’re dying and bleeding? Hamas must stop what is happening in Gaza… we’re sending a message to the entire world: we reject the rule of Hamas,” one protester tells Arabic news outlet Asharq al-Awsat.

Other protesters took aim at foreign press corps, accusing them of deliberately overlooking mounting Palestinian resistance to Hamas rule. Showing their contempt for Palestinian lives they claim to protect, Hamas dispatched gunmen and baton-wielding enforcers to brutally suppress the uprising.

Although internal opposition to Hamas existed before its massacre against Israel on October 7,2023 very rarely does it manifest on the streets of Gaza. Hamas has brutally suppressed previous protests since seizing control of the enclave through a violent ouster of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007, following its electoral victory a year earlier.

Meanwhile, Gaza now resembles an apocalyptic landscape with UN estimates suggesting seven out of ten buildings suffering damage or complete destruction, as healthcare facilities, water delivery systems, and sanitation infrastructure have ceased functioning entirely. Finding food, fuel, medicine, or adequate shelter remains a daily struggle for the 2 million Gazans who are seeing their humanitarian aid stolen at gunpoint by Hamas terrorists.