..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...terror group’s strategy of avoiding publishing the names of its members killed in the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
, and into its intimidation campaign aimed at barring Gazooks from any mention of such fatalities.
Despite no formal ban, there is an unwritten rule deterring Gazooks — even family members of slain Hamas fighters — from publicly mourning their loved ones in a way that identified them with the terror group’s military wing, the Haaretz daily reports, citing unnamed residents of the Strip.
"There is fear to talk publicly about Hamas operatives, including operatives who have been killed," one is quoted as saying, citing reasons such as fear of being branded a "traitor" or a "collaborator," and fear of being harassed by Hamas.
"The prevailing assumption on the streets is that if the names of slain button men are published, people around the world will identify less strongly with the Gazooks’ suffering, and this will give legitimacy to bombing Gaza," another resident is quoted as saying. "As long as there are clips and stories about the civilian population, nobody says a thing. But if anyone dares to criticize Hamas or to mention the name of a slain fighter, they will call them a traitor and treat them as such."
This is in contrast to Hamas’s strategy in the West Bank, where it proudly publishes the names of its members killed by the IDF, and to that of Hezbollah in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, which maintains a detailed list of that terror group’s fatalities in the near-daily cross-border skirmishes since October 8.
"This is a war of survival also for Hamas’s image around the world," a third local is quoted as saying. "When armed operatives aren’t mentioned, when their deaths aren’t mentioned, they don’t exist in the discourse."
The latter adds that another factor is fear that Israeli forces will focus on and harass family members of slain Hamas members.
A fourth resident tells Haaretz that the fog is often so dense that even relatives often don’t know that their loved ones have joined Hamas, or that they have been killed, and that information about these issues is passed quietly as rumors from one to another.