Hamas publicly executed at least seven men on Monday as the terror group moves to reassert control over the Gaza Strip after the ceasefire agreement with Israel.
The men, whom Hamas accused of working with Israeli forces, were bound, dragged in front of a crowd of people, and forced to their knees, according to a video that was verified by Reuters and the BBC. Hamas fighters then shot each man in the back of the head. The terror group said that the men were “criminals and collaborators with Israel,” the BBC reported.
Since the ceasefire and hostage deal with Israel, Hamas has been fighting rival groups in the Gaza Strip, seeking to reestablish dominance over Gazans. Dozens of people have been killed in skirmishes between Hamas and rival groups this week, Reuters reported.
Following the Trump-brokered deal, Israeli forces partially withdrew from the Gaza Strip, moving back to an agreed-upon line near the Israeli border. The hostage deal was only the first phase of Trump’s 20-point peace plan for the region, and it does not require Hamas to disarm — a vital piece of Trump’s broader goal.
Having brought the people of Gaza nothing but fire and death through its 2023 massacre of Israeli civilians, Hamas is using more death to keep the disenchanted people of Gaza in line as a ceasefire with Israel takes hold.
Hamas has killed more than 30 people as it battles its rivals, according to Reuters.
The outlet reported that a Gaza City gun battle with a gang opposed to Hamas left 32 gang members and six Hamas fighters dead.
Hamas may have thought that with the IDF now pulling its troops back to a perimeter closer to the Gazan border with Israel it could reassert its power in all those areas now abandoned by Israel. Hamas was wrong, for a half-dozen powerful families, with thousands of well-armed fighters, understanding how weakened Hamas has become, have begun to fight Hamas combatants in Rafah, Khan Yunis, and Gaza City. More on the latest blows delivered to Hamas by the clans can be found here: “Hamas influencer Saleh Aljafarawi, known as ‘Mr. FAFO’, killed in Gaza,” by Liran Aharoni, Jerusalem Post, October 12, 2025:
“Saleh Aljafarawi, a well-known social media influencer affiliated with Hamas known as “Mr. FAFO”, was killed by an anti-Hamas militia in the Sabra neighborhood in southern Gaza City, Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV confirmed on Sunday.
According to reports, Aljafarawi — one of the most prominent pro-Hamas voices online in the Gaza Strip — was found shot in the head.
The influencer had gained global attention for his viral videos from Gaza, frequently appearing in clips even after being falsely reported dead. On several occasions, he filmed himself from hospital beds after reportedly surviving attacks.
Additional reports from the Gaza Strip said that the son of Bassem Naim, a senior Hamas official in the group’s political bureau, was also killed during violent clashes with the Doghmush clan in Gaza City.A senior source in Hamas’s Interior Ministry told the Qatari-owned Al Jazeera that members of Hamas’s internal security forces were killed following an attack by a local armed militia in Gaza City.
The source said Hamas security forces were currently besieging members of the militia with the goal of “arresting them.”
The source further claimed the militia had killed Gazan refugees returning to Gaza City from the southern part of the Strip. It emphasized that the security apparatus in Gaza was “determined to impose order and punish those responsible for the killings.”
The escalation between Hamas and the Doghmush clan reportedly began when members of the clan ambushed several Hamas operatives near the Jordanian Hospital in Gaza City this past Friday, shortly after a ceasefire went into effect….”
It was not Hamas, but the powerful Doghmush clan that started the fighting in Gaza City, apparently convinced that Hamas was too weak to offer much resistance. It may be right. In a panic, Hamas has called up 7,000 of its own “reserves” to help fight not just against the Doghmush clan, but against a half-dozen other well-armed clans spread from Rafah in the south to Gaza City in the north.
Power loves a vacuum. Hamas wants to retain control and is willing to kill anyone who gets in their way. This is probably the beginning of a civil war in Gaza between family clans, criminal gangs, and other militias.
The people they’re executing did not “collaborate with Israel”, they’re political and military rivals who need to be extinguished.
It’s going to get bloody.
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