At the entrance to Gaza, the Palestinian side of Erez, someone dared to translate the following painted on the walls: "CTRL + ALT DELETE. We need a RESTART." It appears that cyber-dissidents are in the Gaza Islamists, inspired by the hurricane that sweeps the Arab world and also expect it to hit land.
"Repression of the Hamas government in Gaza, will not serve anything," he says defiantly a group of young Palestinians living in Gaza and increasingly dare to stand against the theocratic regime, which according to them press and limits. When in June 2007 saw the Hamas coup, which ended the government of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, the area had a network of very basic and primitive Internet.
More than half of the population are refugees from the Gaza Strip and the small 350 square kilometers, almost one and half million inhabitants, has one of the highest population densities in the world. In recent years there has been a real computer revolution in the Islamic institution, surrounded by Israel and Egypt.
To the extent that today, according to the Wall Street Journal-this is the area of the Arab world with more Internet users per capita, even more than the rich Persian Gulf countries. In 2009 in Gaza and the West Bank, 57% of the population over 10 years of age, using computer. 32% of the population and surfing the Internet and it is assumed that in the last two years the percentage increase.
"This is our only way to communicate with the world," he writes in one of the most popular blogs Muna Fara, 56 years medical and human rights activist: "A group of children playing in the street. Soon time in adolescence, they will say that being together is a sacrilege and they will be covered fully, according to strict religious rules.
Nobody has the right to be different. I remember their grandmothers and mothers used to dress as they wanted and went with classmates at school. ... I change Gaza. " The phenomenon of youth social networks that drive the revolution in the Arab world, there were many in Gaza who use their blogs and Facebook groups to call for an uprising against Hamas.
In 2008 only 15 blogs known in Gaza, now the figure is several hundred. To the exterior and interior insulation, these young people have become independent of the main sources of information. The student of political science Nazek Abu Rajma than 23 years, says that everything began with the Israeli offensive Cast Lead December 2008.
"Hardly any journalists in the battle zones and so we replace them." His colleague also Razan Madhun 23 years, married and mother of a child, adds that "the official media (of Hamas) do not tell the reality, so that we do more and more, in social networks." In his posts both tell how they were arrested separately, after participating in a demonstration of solidarity with the democratic revolution in Egypt.
"The Palestinian people love freedom and for that we express. Suddenly undercover police dressed as civilians violently arrested us, they removed the mobile and taken to police station," says Nazek. He adds Razan: "I covered my head but I did not help. Human rights groups, who heard what had happened, asked the players to see us, but they answered" no "sharp.
After long interrogations forced us to sign papers which we will not participate in demonstrations of this kind and we dress according to your standards. Otherwise, we'll go to jail. " He sums up: "The repression of this government would not be worth anything." Just arrest the increasing popularity of these young people in Gaza, which are read by thousands of people every month.
In their "most blogs are political, because that's life in Gaza." Discussed for example on whether the "resistance" is how necessary struggle against Israel, or how to end the Palestinian division between the two, the moderate West Bank (of Fatah) and the Islamist Gaza. In fact young people of both sides organized a large demonstration on March 15, in which support and require national unity to end the split between Hamas and Fatah.
Yasmin El Khudri 21 years speaks perfect English and dressed as any young Westerner, not covered with a veil. "Some blogs write about the repression that is reflected in that tells me how I should dress, or the fact that women in Gaza have banned bicycling. There are no art museums, theater or movies, so I also write on topics like plant Dama de Noche.
There are only some libraries and Hamas every day, confiscating books. " He adds: "A what most concerns me is the unemployment that affects a good portion of my friends who finished their studies in the best European and American universities and do not have what to do. It is a time bomb, so serious as the occupation.
" According to Yasmin, the "Big Brother of Hamas is the most critical posts and often arrest the perpetrators, trying to silence them." Weeks before the revolution in Egypt, 5 boys and 3 girls from Gaza to maintain anonymity, posted on Facebook a "manifesto of Youth", which demands freedom and peace: "What Hamas is going to hell.
That will go to Israel hell. That Fatah go to hell. That the UN is going to hell. Let U.S. go to hell. We want to scream and break the barrier of silence and indifference, as an Israeli F-15 breaks the barrier sound. As lice are caught in a no hope. We're sick of our shitty life: to be in great Israeli prison, to be beaten by Hamas and forgotten by the rest of the world.
" 
"Repression of the Hamas government in Gaza, will not serve anything," he says defiantly a group of young Palestinians living in Gaza and increasingly dare to stand against the theocratic regime, which according to them press and limits. When in June 2007 saw the Hamas coup, which ended the government of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, the area had a network of very basic and primitive Internet.
More than half of the population are refugees from the Gaza Strip and the small 350 square kilometers, almost one and half million inhabitants, has one of the highest population densities in the world. In recent years there has been a real computer revolution in the Islamic institution, surrounded by Israel and Egypt.
To the extent that today, according to the Wall Street Journal-this is the area of the Arab world with more Internet users per capita, even more than the rich Persian Gulf countries. In 2009 in Gaza and the West Bank, 57% of the population over 10 years of age, using computer. 32% of the population and surfing the Internet and it is assumed that in the last two years the percentage increase.
"This is our only way to communicate with the world," he writes in one of the most popular blogs Muna Fara, 56 years medical and human rights activist: "A group of children playing in the street. Soon time in adolescence, they will say that being together is a sacrilege and they will be covered fully, according to strict religious rules.
Nobody has the right to be different. I remember their grandmothers and mothers used to dress as they wanted and went with classmates at school. ... I change Gaza. " The phenomenon of youth social networks that drive the revolution in the Arab world, there were many in Gaza who use their blogs and Facebook groups to call for an uprising against Hamas.
In 2008 only 15 blogs known in Gaza, now the figure is several hundred. To the exterior and interior insulation, these young people have become independent of the main sources of information. The student of political science Nazek Abu Rajma than 23 years, says that everything began with the Israeli offensive Cast Lead December 2008.
"Hardly any journalists in the battle zones and so we replace them." His colleague also Razan Madhun 23 years, married and mother of a child, adds that "the official media (of Hamas) do not tell the reality, so that we do more and more, in social networks." In his posts both tell how they were arrested separately, after participating in a demonstration of solidarity with the democratic revolution in Egypt.
"The Palestinian people love freedom and for that we express. Suddenly undercover police dressed as civilians violently arrested us, they removed the mobile and taken to police station," says Nazek. He adds Razan: "I covered my head but I did not help. Human rights groups, who heard what had happened, asked the players to see us, but they answered" no "sharp.
After long interrogations forced us to sign papers which we will not participate in demonstrations of this kind and we dress according to your standards. Otherwise, we'll go to jail. " He sums up: "The repression of this government would not be worth anything." Just arrest the increasing popularity of these young people in Gaza, which are read by thousands of people every month.
In their "most blogs are political, because that's life in Gaza." Discussed for example on whether the "resistance" is how necessary struggle against Israel, or how to end the Palestinian division between the two, the moderate West Bank (of Fatah) and the Islamist Gaza. In fact young people of both sides organized a large demonstration on March 15, in which support and require national unity to end the split between Hamas and Fatah.
Yasmin El Khudri 21 years speaks perfect English and dressed as any young Westerner, not covered with a veil. "Some blogs write about the repression that is reflected in that tells me how I should dress, or the fact that women in Gaza have banned bicycling. There are no art museums, theater or movies, so I also write on topics like plant Dama de Noche.
There are only some libraries and Hamas every day, confiscating books. " He adds: "A what most concerns me is the unemployment that affects a good portion of my friends who finished their studies in the best European and American universities and do not have what to do. It is a time bomb, so serious as the occupation.
" According to Yasmin, the "Big Brother of Hamas is the most critical posts and often arrest the perpetrators, trying to silence them." Weeks before the revolution in Egypt, 5 boys and 3 girls from Gaza to maintain anonymity, posted on Facebook a "manifesto of Youth", which demands freedom and peace: "What Hamas is going to hell.
That will go to Israel hell. That Fatah go to hell. That the UN is going to hell. Let U.S. go to hell. We want to scream and break the barrier of silence and indifference, as an Israeli F-15 breaks the barrier sound. As lice are caught in a no hope. We're sick of our shitty life: to be in great Israeli prison, to be beaten by Hamas and forgotten by the rest of the world.
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