Hamas To Address Reports Of Mass-Flight Of Youth From Gaza By Forbidding Reporting On Mass-Flight Of Youth From Gaza

Authorities are unable to effectively shift blame to Israel for all Palestinian ills.

Gaza City, September 26 – Forty-thousand residents of this coastal territory have sought greener pastures in Europe and North America over the last year, according to official statistics and news items, leading the militant Islamist movement that governs the territory to take steps to reduce the phenomenon by barring journalists from documenting anything of the sort.

Hamas issued amended media guidelines for reporters today who wish to maintain their access to Palestinian officials in the Gaza Strip and not face harassment or expulsion. The new guidelines make explicit a point that a Hamas spokesman acknowledged the organization had assumed to be self-understood: no reporting that makes Hamas look bad. Tens of thousands of mostly young men departing what they called, in international media reports, a repressive place with no future, calls into question the competence and benevolence of the authorities, who are unable to effectively shift blame to Israel for all Palestinian ills.

“Yes, there’s a blockade,” conceded Fazwi Barhoum. “Yes, more imports are entering Gaza each week than before the blockade. No, that does not help with our efforts to paint every misfortune as the result of Zionist perfidy. Of course we have to address the problem of these stories by forbidding the stories.”

Gazans have flocked to every institution that offers some hope of an exit, to Egypt or Turkey, and from there, via risky and exploitative human traffickers, to the more economically promising shores of Italy, Canada, or the US, depending on how much the fleeing Palestinians have to spend. Few of those who attempt the journey, or are preparing for it, mention Israel as the primary factor driving them out.

“Israel lets in tens of thousands of workers from Gaza, and facilitate medical treatment for many more,” noted Fat’hi Massoud, 22, who has saved up to afford the treacherous trip across the Mediterranean. “No one in Gaza will admit to loving Jews or Israel. We do know that Israel isn’t the source of the political repression, human shields, cronyism, corruption, and callous disregard for Palestinian welfare that characterizes our life here. It actually hurts a little more, knowing that our own leaders treat us worse than the ‘brutal’ Zionists ever did. You can’t be surprised Hamas wants to shit down all this talk.”

Analysts explained that Hamas cannot simply prevent the thousands of Gazans from leaving. “That would be asking for an explosion of frustration,” observed political and military commentator Seer Lahatz. “There has to be a release of the pressure somehow, and it will help get rid of those who might otherwise make trouble. Also, once they’re past their teenage years, their utility as child-slave-labor tunnel diggers, or human shields, greatly diminishes.”

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