The demonstration started spontaneously from a center housing displaced persons on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 25, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, an area threatened by yet another evacuation order from the Israeli army. "The blood of our children is not worthless," read some of the placards, photos of which circulated on social media. Two days earlier, the threshold of 50,000 Palestinians killed since October 7, 2023, had been passed, according to the local Ministry of Health.

Chants calling for an end to the massacres and the war, shouted on Tuesday and Wednesday by hundreds of people who took to the dust-gray streets, amid the rubble and skeletons of buildings in the devastated Palestinian territory, were gradually joined by other cries, directed against Hamas: "Hamas, out!" and "Hamas terrorist!" Voices were also heard criticizing the Qatari TV channel Al-Jazeera, which offers the most exhaustive coverage of the situation in Gaza, but is generally complacent toward the Islamist movement. Israel has banned foreign journalists from entering the Gaza Strip for 18 months.

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