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The Palestinian Authority ¶ held the Gaza Strip ruling party, Hamas, responsibility for ongoing oppression there. Hamas is facing accusations of using excessive force with civilians after leading a crackdown against protesters demonstrating over economic hardship and upped tax brackets.
In a first since Hamas seized the Strip twelve years ago, fierce clashes erupted between its forces and hundreds of young demonstrators in Gaza on Saturday as protests against the high cost of living in the coastal enclave entered their third day.
Hamas security forces were reported to have fired at and used batons against demonstrators. Labeled as unprecedented, the violence between Hamas and the Strip’s residents saw to the detention and arrest of several civilians.
One of the demonstrators, with his face covered in blood, chanted: “We want to live in dignity”.
The Ramallah-based Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) said Hamas forces attacked its staff in Gaza because they were doing their job of monitoring and reporting the movement’s crackdown on the street protests.