- Yoav Atzmoni, who was stationed in Gaza, proudly posed with the colorful symbol.
In Gaza, a queer Jewish man raised an LGBT flag while merely reading,” In the name of like.”
Yoav Atzmoni, 31, an IDF soldier who was called to duty following the slaughter on October 7, proudly posed with the colorful flag while stationed in Gaza.
He told The New York Post that his daring act was one of rebellion against the territory’s strict anti-gay regulations and imposed language.
The picture, which had the caption” The first ever pride flag raised in Gaza,” started going viral on social media over the weekend and was later re-posted by the standard State of Israel account now.
Despite making him a more vulnerable objective for militant attacks, Atzmoni revealed his plans last month to take the pride flag on his military container to his battle against Hamas.
At the time of his worry, he told Insider that a Hamas victory had send Israel’s advancement in LGBTQ+ right back several decades. He declared,” I wo n’t let them bring me back into the closet.
After raising the flag two weeks ago in Al-Atatra, the northwestern region of the Gaza Strip, he has now completed his vision.
Following the terror attack on October 7 in Hamas, which resulted in the deaths of about 1,200 individuals and the capture of 240 others, Atzmoni was called up to the Israel Defense Forces.
Israel has since retaliated against Hamas by starting a defense operation that has claimed thousands of lives in Gaza.
Given the oppression that LGBTQ people in Gaza face, some anti-Israel protesters who identify as” Queers for Palestine” have received online abuse.
The IDF sends its reference from Gaza to all anti-Israel Gay activists. Yoseph Haddad, an Israeli advocate, tweeted.
According to a UN Watch statement from 2022, LGBTQ Palestinians living under Hamas law experience” extreme oppression and stigmatisation.”
According to the Human Dignity Trust, men are also prohibited from engaging in same-sex action, which carries a prison sentence of up to 10 times.
The British Mandate Criminal Code Ordinance of 1936 established the rules, which are still in force in Gaza now.
Israel, however, is the only Middle Eastern nation to permit same-sex unions.
The law was put into effect in 2006, and in 2020 it became legal to adopt children through infertility.
As a result, hundreds of Palestinians who identify as gay or lesbian have been escaping oppression in Israel for years.
One such immigrant, Ahmad Abu Marhia, a 25-year-old queer Arab man, was residing in Israel under asylum at the time of his kidnapping and execution in the West Bank town of Hebron in 2022. His killers posted video of the crime to social advertising.
Mahmoud Ishtiwi, one of their own elders, was apparently put to death by Hamas in 2016 for sleeping with a person.
