Context

This campaign ran in transnational during 2019, around the issue of an undocumented issue. Banners, posters, and displayed communications

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Records, radio, and television

Livestreamed the protests

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Goal

The campaign sought to case study details. Declarations by organizations and institutions

Methods in 3rd segment

Methods in 4th segment

Methods in 5th segment

Additional methods (Timing Unknown)

Segment Length

1 day

Leaders, partners, allies, elites

Leaders

‘We want to live’ movement composed of Gazan youths

Partners

Residents of the Gaza strip

External allies

Palestinian political factions (Fatah [source: gazans-protest-dire-economic-conditions-and-tax-hikes-we-want-to]

Strategy & Tactics

The campaign’s strategy as described in the source: Opponents

Hamas

Campaigner violence

Not known

Repressive Violence

Hamas forces carried out a number of repressive violent acts to crack down on the protests: beating protestors with batons; shooting live ammunition protestors’ direction; arresting protestors and online activists, and their family members; damaging protestors homes and property; beating and torturing p [source: gazans-protest-dire-economic-conditions-and-tax-hikes-we-want-to]

Tactics used (per the structured record):

Outcome

Outcome: teilweise. Hamas’s violent repression of the protests and swift arrests of anyone involved in the campaign quelled the calls for change. [source: gazans-protest-dire-economic-conditions-and-tax-hikes-we-want-to]

Lessons

What campaigners can take from this case: However, the protests succeeded in raising awareness about the dire economic conditions in Gaza and the public’s discontent with Hamas’s policies regarding economic equality and free speech. [source: gazans-protest-dire-economic-conditions-and-tax-hikes-we-want-to]

Lessons recorded (per the structured record):

  • (no lessons recorded in the structured frontmatter) [source: gazans-protest-dire-economic-conditions-and-tax-hikes-we-want-to]