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Infant death provokes rare anti-Hamas protests in Gaza

2012-09-27 26 Dailymotion

The scene of a deadly house fire in Gaza City, where a boy of just three years died.<br/> <br />The fire started after a candle lit amid a routine power outage burnt their house down.<br/> <br />Dozen's attended the todler's funeral, and elsewhere, the incident sparked a protest of at least 500 demonstrators angry over Hamas' rule of the Gaza Strip.<br/> <br />Anti-Hamas protests in Gaza, where power failures have left households with just six hours of electricity a day since February, are extremely rare.<br/> <br />Hamas blames the electricity shortages on Egypt which it says is restricting the flow of fuel, and on Israel, which imposed a blockade on the coastal enclave in 2007.<br/> <br />A Hamas spokesman said the boy's death was a message to Egypt that it had to speed up its promised efforts to help solve the power crisis in Gaza.

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