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Palestinians Commit Suicide as Their Leaders Live in Hotels and Villas
Khaled Abu Toameh
August 3, 2022

It has been 15 years since the Islamist Hamas group seized control of the Gaza Strip, home to some two million Palestinians. Since then, the residents of the Gaza Strip have been reminded on a daily basis of the failure of the Iranian-backed group to provide them with decent living conditions. Instead, the repressive governance of the Hamas leaders only brings the Palestinians in Gaza more misery. The situation in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip has become so bad that an increasing number of young people have been committing suicide by self-immolation, throwing themselves from rooftops, swallowing large amounts of medicine and hanging. READ MORE