Palestinian rioters drag burning tires toward Israel’s border. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
Hamas-led violence has caused another shortage in Gazan – no tires for civilians, only for rioters.
By: AP and United with Israel Staff
Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to cope with shortages of just about everything in more than a decade of Hamas’ rule — from medicines to fuel and building supplies. Now, seven months of violent Hamas- led riots on Israel’s border have added another item to that list: car tires.
Tires are a favored item by rioters during the weekly protests — they are set on fire, tossed toward Israeli troops across the border. A byproduct of this phenomenon is heavy air pollution.
In response, Israel has halted tire imports into the Strip, sending prices skyrocketing and forcing Gaza motorists to find creative solutions to keep their vehicles on the road.
Taxi driver Khaled Hamad has no spare tire in his trunk. His tires are worn down, but he could only afford to change two, replacing them with secondhand ones that aren’t even the standard size recommended by the manufacturer.
“Even when they were cheaper, upgrading my tires was expensive,” Hamad said as he kicked a bald front tire that still needs to be changed. “I make 40 shekels ($11) a day these days. Business is down.”
Rioters at the border marches burn old tires, using the thick black smoke to obscure the vision of Israeli soldiers as they hurl rocks, firebombs and grenades toward Israeli forces defending the border on the other side of the fence dividing Gaza and Israel.
Gazans Suffer, Hamas Riots
Ironically, the tire ban has had no effect on the rioters, who rely on a seemingly endless supply of old ones that are discarded in garages, fields and roadsides across the territory.
Rushdi al-Khour, head of the association of Gaza spare parts merchants, which coordinates imports from Israel, said the tire shortage has caused severe losses for businessmen.
He said the cost of a pair of tires has jumped from $120 to $300 since the ban went into effect, a sizable sum in the economically struggling Strip.
The Hamas-led riots are depicted as being fueled by widespread despair over the difficult conditions created by a blockade on Gaza. However, an examination of Gazans opinions on the issue shows that there is little support for the border violence, while a majority says the riots have achieved nothing.
Two Palestinian opinion polls taken inside Gaza this month demonstrate that the majority of Palestinians oppose these violent incidents. Most blame Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, and not Israel, for their severe economic woes.
Moreover, a majority of Palestinians in Gaza say they want Hamas to change its anti-Israel position and agree to make peace with the Jewish state.
The Truth About the ‘Marches’
The truth is that the supposedly peaceful protests are violent riots, promoted by Hamas and executed mostly by terrorists.
“The ‘return marches’ were not ‘popular,’ ‘peaceful’ events, as falsely presented by Palestinian propaganda, but rather a Hamas strategic move accompanied by pre-planned violence,” the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) determined.
In an interview with Al Jazeera in May, Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar called the idea that the terrorist group was employing “peaceful resistance” against Israel “a clear terminological deception.”
“When you have weapons that are being wielded by men who were able to prevent the strongest army in the region from entering the Gaza Strip for 51 days and were able to capture or kill soldiers of that army — is this really ‘peaceful resistance’?” asked al-Zahhar.
“When we talk about ‘peaceful resistance,’ we are deceiving the public,” he said. “This is peaceful resistance bolstered by a military force and by security agencies, and enjoying tremendous popular support.”
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哈马斯领导的暴力事件导致加沙再次出现短缺 – 平民没有轮胎，只有暴徒。
由：AP和联合以色列工作人员
加沙的巴勒斯坦人被迫应对哈马斯统治十多年来几乎所有事情的短缺 – 从药品到燃料和建筑用品。现在，在以色列边境发生的七个月以哈马斯为主的暴力骚乱又增加了一个项目：汽车轮胎。
在每周的抗议活动期间，轮胎是暴乱者青睐的物品 – 它们被点燃，向边境的以色列军队投掷。这种现象的副产品是重度空气污染。
作为回应，以色列已停止进入加沙地带的轮胎进口，导致价格暴涨并迫使加沙驾驶者找到创造性的解决方案，以保持他们的车辆上路。
出租车司机Khaled Hamad的行李箱里没有备用轮胎。他的轮胎磨损了，但他只能换两个，换成二手的，甚至不是制造商推荐的标准尺寸。
“即使它们更便宜，升级我的轮胎也很昂贵，”哈马德说，他踢了一个仍然需要更换的秃头前轮胎。 “这些天我每天赚40谢克尔（11美元）。生意下降。“
边境游行的骚乱分子焚烧旧轮胎，使用厚厚的黑烟遮住以色列士兵的视线，因为他们向以色列部队投掷石块，火焰弹和手榴弹，以保卫隔离加沙和以色列隔离墙的另一边的边界。
Gazans遭受哈马斯骚乱
具有讽刺意味的是，轮胎禁令对暴乱者没有任何影响，他们依赖看似无穷无尽的旧货供应，这些旧货被丢弃在全境的车库，田地和路边。
协调从以色列进口的加沙备件商协会负责人Rushdi al-Khour表示，轮胎短缺给商人带来了严重损失。
他说，自禁令生效以来，一对轮胎的成本从120美元跃升至300美元，这在经济困难的拉斯维加斯大道上相当可观。
由于对加沙封锁造成的困难条件的普遍绝望，哈马斯领导的骚乱被描述为加剧。然而，对加沙人对这一问题的看法的审查表明，对边界暴力的支持很少，而大多数人认为骚乱没有取得任何成果。
本月在加沙地带进行的两次巴勒斯坦民意调查显示，大多数巴勒斯坦人反对这些暴力事件。大多数人指责哈马斯和巴勒斯坦权力机构，而不是以色列因其严重的经济困境。
此外，加沙的大多数巴勒斯坦人表示，他们希望哈马斯改变其反以色列的立场，并同意与犹太国家实现和平。
关于’游行’的真相
事实是，所谓的和平抗议活动是暴力骚乱，由哈马斯推动并主要由恐怖分子执行。
“巴勒斯坦宣传错误地提出了”回归游行“不是’流行’，’和平’事件，而是伴随着预先计划的暴力的哈马斯战略行动，”梅尔阿米特情报和恐怖主义信息中心（ITIC）确定。
哈马斯联合创始人马哈茂德·扎哈尔在5月接受半岛电视台采访时称，恐怖组织正在对以色列采取“和平抵抗”，这是一个明显的术语欺骗。
“如果你拥有的武器能够阻止该地区最强大的军队进入加沙地带51天并且能够捕获或杀死那支军队的士兵 – 这真的是’和平抵抗’吗？ “扎哈尔问道。
“当我们谈论’和平抵抗’时，我们在欺骗公众，”他说。 “这是由军队和安全机构支持的和平抵抗，并获得了巨大的民众支持。”
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