What Hamas Doesn’t Want You to Know

The Lie Behind the Terror

Hamas is afraid of you finding out the truth.

They’re afraid the world will realize they are not a government, not a liberation movement, and not victims. They are a terror franchise, the Muslim Brotherhood’s most violent branch, operating Gaza like a private prison. Because when people see clearly, Hamas loses everything.

Palestinian Hamas militants take part in an anti-Israel military show in the southern Gaza Strip. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib (Shutterstock)

Gaza is not united, it’s silenced

This year, for the first time in many years, Palestinians inside Gaza marched not against Israel, but against Hamas. Thousands of desperate voices took to the streets in Beit Lahia, chanting, “Hamas out,” and “Our children’s blood is not cheap.”

They weren’t calling for a ceasefire. They were calling for a regime change.

They know what much of the world still refuses to admit: Hamas is the reason Gaza suffers. One young protester put it plainly: “You should demand the removal of Hamas and the immediate release of all Israeli hostages. That’s the only way to stop this war.”

These were not Israeli slogans. These were cries from within Gaza itself.

Starvation is being used strategically

There is no famine in Gaza. Aid is flowing in. Food is entering daily. But ask the family of Evyatar David, an Israeli hostage held in a Hamas tunnel, what real starvation looks like.

In a video released by Hamas, Evyatar is seen digging his own grave, emaciated, weak, and terrified. In the video, Evyatar says he was eating lentils, if anything at all. He looks like a Holocaust victim, because what Hamas does to our hostages is what the Nazis did to the Jews.

And it’s not because Gaza lacks supplies. It’s because Hamas uses starvation as a weapon against hostages, and even its own people.

Palestinians report that Hamas confiscates aid, controls distribution, and blocks access to areas that don't support them. They've even demanded that aid for hostages be conditioned on political concessions from Israel. This is not a humanitarian crisis, it’s political blackmail.

Israeli hostage Evyatar David in Hamas captivity for over 667 days.

Hamas doesn’t just fight on the battlefield; they fight in your feed

Hamas is highly media-savvy. They understand Western psychology better than most Westerners do. They know that images of civilian suffering move hearts and drive policy. That’s why every move they make is designed to trigger an emotional response in Europe and the U.S.

They embed rocket launchers in civilian areas, knowing civilian casualties will follow. They release carefully edited hostage videos designed to stir just enough sympathy for negotiations. They draft statements for global media. They pretend to speak your language, human rights, justice, liberation, all while crushing dissent at home and holding civilians hostage. This isn’t a battle for land. It’s a battle for narrative. And Hamas plays it like professionals.

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They call it “resistance.” Their people call it tyranny.

When Palestinians tried to protest Hamas’s rule earlier this year, they were met with batons, bullets, and death. The body of 20-year-old Uday Al Rabay, who marched against Hamas, was dumped on his family’s doorstep. Thousands mourned him, not as a martyr of Israel, but as a victim of Hamas.

Gaza is not free. It is occupied by Hamas. There are no elections. No free press. No freedom of speech. Journalists who expose Hamas corruption are jailed or driven into exile. People don’t speak. Not because they agree, but because they’re afraid.

This is not a government. This is repression with an anthem.

The leadership lives in luxury

While Gaza suffers, Hamas’s top leadership lives in opulence abroad in Doha, Istanbul, and Beirut. Their children attend elite schools. Their homes are guarded, and their lives are good.

Meanwhile, they send other people’s children into war. They glorify martyrdom from air-conditioned mansions. One Gazan mother put it simply: “They live like kings while we bury our sons.”

Tragedy is not their burden, it’s their strategy

Civilian death is not only a consequence of Hamas’s actions. It’s part of the plan.

They want high civilian casualties. Everybody becomes a headline. Every ruined building becomes a symbol. They know that every missile fired from a school courtyard will provoke a response, and they count on that.

When Israel responds to rocket fire, Hamas blames the consequences on Israel, not the cause. And when Western journalists arrive, they see what Hamas allows them to see, never the rocket next to the ambulance, never the tunnel under the playground.

Palestinian factions handed over the bodies of four Israelis to the Red Cross in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, on February 20, 2025. (Shutterstock)

The world needs to see the real occupation

The real occupation in Gaza isn’t Israel; Israel actually left Gaza in 2005. It’s Hamas.

They occupy minds with fear. They occupy neighborhoods with guns. They occupy politics with blood. And they occupy the global narrative with lies.

The people of Gaza are not Hamas. They want freedom. Not slogans. Not terror. Not tunnels.

And the hostages? They are not bargaining chips. They’re human beings. They are starving in darkness, while the world debates terms.

What now?

• Share the truth: The world needs to hear from Palestinians in Gaza who say, “enough.” They don’t need more speeches; they need Hamas gone.

• Support the hostages: Speak their names. Demand their release. Expose their suffering.

• Cut through the propaganda: Ask who benefits from each image, each video, each soundbite. The answer is almost always: Hamas.

This war ends when Hamas ends

There is no “better way” for Hamas to govern. There is no reformed version of this group. There is no future for Gaza with Hamas in charge.

This isn’t just a military threat. It’s a moral one.

And now that you know, do something with it.