The 2019 Gaza We Want to Live, dubbed as We Want to Live protests, began on February, initiating with the popular call "We want to live" by a group of politically unaffiliated media activists. The group has been nicknamed the 14th March movement. The protests aim at high costs of living and tax hikes in the Gaza Strip.

The protests were met with violence by the ruling Hamas, which dispatched security forces to disperse protesters. Several human rights organisations and political factions have denounced attacks on protesters by Hamas security forces. The protests were described as the most severe anti-regime protests in Gaza since the Hamas takeover in 2007.

2019 Gaza economic protests

See also

Arab Spring

2011–2012 Palestinian protests

References

Protests in the Gaza Strip

Gaza Strip

2019 protests

2019 in the Gaza Strip

Fatah–Hamas conflict

2019 Gaza economic protests