2019 Gaza economic protests

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2019 We Want to Live Gaza protests
Part of Second Arab Spring
Map of the Gaza Strip
Date	14 March 2019 (2019-03-14) – 18 March 2019 (2019-03-18) (four days)[1]
Location	Gaza Strip
Caused by	Opposition to Hamas regime and corruption in the Gaza Strip
Goals	Reducing cost of living Reducing taxation
Resulted in	Hamas security cracks down on the protesters
Parties
Protesters Moumen Al-Natour Government Hamas government in Gaza Hamas Al-Qassam Brigades
Lead figures
Moumen Al-Natour Ismail Haniyeh Yahya Sinwar Mohammed Deif Fathi Hamad
Casualties
Arrested	1,000+

The 2019 Gaza economic protests, also called the We Want to Live protests^[2][1][3] and the 14th March movement,^[1] were a series of protests held in the Gaza Strip in response to high costs of living and tax hikes. Moumen Al-Natour is the main organizer of We Want to Live movement, Al-Natour is a Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender.

The protests were met with violence by the ruling Hamas, which dispatched security forces to disperse protesters.^[2] Several human rights organisations and political factions have denounced attacks on protesters by Hamas security forces.^[2] The protests were described as the most severe anti-regime protests in Gaza since the Hamas takeover in 2007.^[1]