Gazans Slam Hamas for Food Waste, Corruption, and the Slaughter of Palestinians
- MiddleEast24 Staff
- Feb 25
- 3 min read
As Hamas imposes a regime of terror on the civilian population in the Gaza Strip, Gazan activists bravely condemn the food waste, corruption, and atrocities perpetrated by the terrorist organization. The Mideast Journal brings the voices of three of those activists: Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, Hamza al-Masri, and Moumen Al-Natour.
Hamas wastes food and money
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Gazan influencer in exile, tweeted a video of massive amounts of food thrown into the garbage in Gaza. In his post, Alkhatib condemns Hamas for wasting precious food either because the terrorist organization didn’t receive taxes for it or due to a lack of will or infrastructure to distribute it to the people of Gaza properly.
In either case, Alkhatib stresses Hamas must be held responsible for this criminal waste: “Millions of aid dollars continue to be wasted every single day in the Gaza Strip, thanks to the criminality of Hamas and an entire syndicate of influencers and a new class of millionaires who steal vast sums of money and supplies… Tragically, this video is a microcosm of the state of play in Gaza over the past two decades, especially under the fascistic control of Hamas’s terrorists, where billions of dollars have been wasted for absolutely nothing.”
Hamas terrorizes Gazans
In a series of Twitter posts, Alkhatib harshly criticizes Hamas’s regime of terror over the Gazan population. In one of these posts, he writes: “Hamas is terrorizing the people of Gaza and acting like a thuggish militia that can kill, maim, torture, and disappear individuals at any moment.” In another, he calls Hamas out for brutally repressing its opposition in Gaza: “Hamas is getting ready to use the reprieve from the ceasefire to commit atrocities against Gaza’s clans, opposition, activists & has prepared lists for executions/torture.”
Hamza al-Masri, another anti-Hamas Gazan activist, accuses Hamas of torturing members of clans opposing the terrorist organization, such as the al-Majaida clan, and other civilians. According to the activist, Hamas operates multiple torture sites to quell resistance and inflict terror on the local population. One of these facilities is located underneath Khan Younis’s Nasser Hospital.
During a show on the UAE’s Al-Mashhad TV, al-Masri claimed Hamas acts just like ISIS in the Gaza Strip, shooting those opposing it and slaughtering innocent civilians. Due to his activism, al-Masri has been facing constant threats to his life from Hamas and its supporters.
Hamas keeps waging war on the Palestinians
Moumen Al-Natour, a lawyer from Gaza, wrote an anti-Hamas op-ed in The Washington Post. There, he accuses Hamas of pulling Gaza into the abyss, wishes for the Gazans to be free of Hamas’s cruel domination, and calls for breaking the cycle of war with Israel.
According to Al-Natour, war in Gaza is currently raging not between Israel and Hamas, but between Hamas and the Gazan themselves: “In the nearly two weeks that have passed since Trump’s deal was signed, and in the absence of IDF soldiers, Hamas has emerged from its tunnel network and is reasserting control in the most violent manner possible, its reemergence accompanied by a terrifying bloodletting that targets any form of internal dissent, both real and imagined, past and present.”
“Hamas is taking its humiliation and rage out on the Palestinians who happened to be on the wrong side of the yellow line when the war ended. Whether the militants are executing a line of shackled men on the street or engaging in firefights around hospitals, Hamas’s violence against Palestinians has now become so intense and so visceral that you would think that their true enemy was Palestinians, not Israelis.”
Read more: Anti-Hamas Protests in Gaza: Why It Matters
Following the publication of his op-ed, Al-Natour paid a personal price for his harsh criticism of Hamas as his family members distanced themselves from him, branding him “perpetrator.” Each of the three Gaza activists calling out Hamas for its crimes against the Palestinian people had to pay a personal price for his dissidence: Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib is regularly criticized by Hamas followers and anti-Israel activists, Hamza al-Masri receives death threats from Hamas, and Moumen Al-Natour was publicly outed by his own family.
Ofek Kehila (Israel, 1987) is a scholar of Spanish Golden Age literature and Latin American literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. His research bridges the gap between those traditions, highlighting their aesthetic, cultural, and historical dialogue. He holds a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2022) and was a postdoctoral fellow at Freie Universität Berlin (2023-2025).