Hamas sends Gaza's civilian youth to participate in "March of Return" protests on the Israeli border and abandons them after they are wounded in the ensuing violence, Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Brig. Gen. (res.) Kamil Abu Rokon contended Sunday.
Rokon shared a viral video featuring an angry Gaza man criticizing Hamas for neglecting to provide appropriate medical treatment for a foot injury he sustained in a protest nearly two months ago.
"It's a busted leg, do you see?" the young Gaza man says in the video. "Over 50 days and the wound hasn't healed. I've never had an injury like this."
According to the man, who displays his wounded foot in the video, every time he has seen a doctor he was told everything is fine. The man goes on to complain about the dearth of hospitals in Rafah, a city he says has been marginalized.
In the video, the Gaza man censures the Hamas leadership, accusing them of abandoning the very people they put at risk by sending them to the border to protest against Israel.
"I don't want money. I want them [Hamas] to take care of the wounded," he says in the video.
The remarks coincide with Israeli claims that Hamas is funding the mass border riots, which began on March 30, by paying protesters who clash with IDF troops.
Dozens of Hamas terrorists and protesters have been killed since the border protests began and thousands more have been wounded. Under the cover of the demonstrations, protesters have attacked IDF soldiers, launched thousands of incendiary kites and balloons fitted with explosives and have repeatedly attempted to breach the security fence and infiltrate Israeli territory.
