Infant death provokes rare anti-Hamas protests in Gaza
- 12 years ago
The scene of a deadly house fire in Gaza City, where a boy of just three years died.
The fire started after a candle lit amid a routine power outage burnt their house down.
Dozen's attended the todler's funeral, and elsewhere, the incident sparked a protest of at least 500 demonstrators angry over Hamas' rule of the Gaza Strip.
Anti-Hamas protests in Gaza, where power failures have left households with just six hours of electricity a day since February, are extremely rare.
Hamas blames the electricity shortages on Egypt which it says is restricting the flow of fuel, and on Israel, which imposed a blockade on the coastal enclave in 2007.
A Hamas spokesman said the boy's death was a message to Egypt that it had to speed up its promised efforts to help solve the power crisis in Gaza.
The fire started after a candle lit amid a routine power outage burnt their house down.
Dozen's attended the todler's funeral, and elsewhere, the incident sparked a protest of at least 500 demonstrators angry over Hamas' rule of the Gaza Strip.
Anti-Hamas protests in Gaza, where power failures have left households with just six hours of electricity a day since February, are extremely rare.
Hamas blames the electricity shortages on Egypt which it says is restricting the flow of fuel, and on Israel, which imposed a blockade on the coastal enclave in 2007.
A Hamas spokesman said the boy's death was a message to Egypt that it had to speed up its promised efforts to help solve the power crisis in Gaza.