Hamas cracks down on ‘inappropriate’ hairstyles

Mohamed Abo Ramdan (right) looks out on Gaza City yesterday with his friends Ayman al-Sayed (left) and Tarq Al-Naqeb, both of whom had their heads shaved after Hamas security forces rounded them up with other young men.Hamas security forces in Gaza have been rounding up young men and forcing them to get haircuts on grounds of inappropriate hairstyles, a rights group has charged. Some of the youths have even been beaten, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights said on Sunday. “Palestinian police have stopped several young men walking in different areas in the Gaza Strip in the last three days and taken them into custody saying their hairstyles are inappropriate,” said the PCHR. “Those young men were forced to get haircuts in a humiliating way and several of them were beaten.”