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Footage shows public executions in Gaza City street

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Twiglets1 · 23/09/2025 07:20

BBC Verify: Footage has emerged showing the public executions of three men accused of being Israeli collaborators in Gaza City.

BBC Verify has verified that the location of the executions was a street outside Shifa hospital in the centre of the city, which is the focus of a major Israeli ground offensive.

Videos circulating on Sunday evening showed at least five armed and masked men, three blindfolded Palestinian men kneeling on the ground and a large crowd.

One of the armed men is heard saying: "The death sentence has been decided for all collaborators".

There are cheers before the three men are pushed to the ground and shot several times in the back of the head. The crowd then praises Hamas's armed wing, the Qassam Brigades.

A Palestinian security official from the Hamas-run Gaza government told Reuters that the executions were carried out by the "Joint Operations Room of the Palestinian resistance".

This is a rare instance in which a public execution in Gaza has been captured on video. There have been previous reports of Hamas using violence on those who dissent. In May, Hamas-led groups reportedly executed four Palestinians for looting aid trucks.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99g3p52k15o

qassam brigades seen in file photo

Footage shows public executions in Gaza City street

Hamas-linked social media channels say "three collaborators who were spying for the occupation" were executed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99g3p52k15o

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ThreeDeafMice · 23/09/2025 12:34

Alittlefeedbackwouldbenice · 23/09/2025 12:31

I'm not sure practically what they should do about individuals working with the IDF. In most conflicts, they'd be detained in custody until they could face trial, but obviously there's no functioning prisons. It's a real practical issue when law& order breaks down. However, just because execution is a pragmatic option (one as a country we've used extensively in war), doesn't make it right. Not sure what they should have done though.

And yet there are enough places to imprison Israeli hostages. Where there’s a will, and all that.

Alittlefeedbackwouldbenice · 23/09/2025 12:31

I'm not sure practically what they should do about individuals working with the IDF. In most conflicts, they'd be detained in custody until they could face trial, but obviously there's no functioning prisons. It's a real practical issue when law& order breaks down. However, just because execution is a pragmatic option (one as a country we've used extensively in war), doesn't make it right. Not sure what they should have done though.

TakeMe2Insanity · 23/09/2025 12:25

Theres been no stability for nearly two years let alone clean water, food and healthcare. A flood in the US and people immediately start looting, attacking each other and law enforcement have shoot to kill orders.

These people are extremely desperate. They aren’t living a normal life. They are pushed to the extremes of their emotions so no I won’t judge them by normal life.

Comedycook · 23/09/2025 12:19

Nothing says statehood quite like public executions hey?

Alittlefeedbackwouldbenice · 23/09/2025 12:17

I've read the BBC article. My first thought was urgh, because I detest the death penalty, and executions in my opinion are never excusable.

But I also think you are being a little hypocritical in highlighting this. As noted in the article, or one of the men that was executed seems to have been the head of armed clan funded by Israel to fight against Hamas. Hence's his execution as a collaborator. As someone who disagrees for the death penalty, obviously I don't think that was right.

But you are someone that has no issue with Israel dropping bombs to execute Hamas. And if there happened to be children in the same house, well their they are collateral...

Neither side should be summarily executing the 'other side'. But at least these guys weren't bombed next to their family whilst they slept at night.

Two wrongs don't make a right here, and those execution should not have taken place, but I'm puzzled as to how you have no problem with the daily executions that Israel do? Which have included though is lying unconscious in hospital beds.

Gloriia · 23/09/2025 12:09

HellsBalls · 23/09/2025 11:45

It’s a terrorist state.
Hamas are riding high now Palestine has been recognized as a state.
The deaths of all those women and children has paid off. Hamas don’t care about the deaths, it’s only the hand wringers in the West that somehow think supporting radical Islam is the way forward.

Exactly. It's just appalling how proud they are now posting this stuff, they don't need to hide it anymore.

I'm only surprised that the UN haven't come out and blamed the IDF for it.

HellsBalls · 23/09/2025 11:45

Twiglets1 · 23/09/2025 09:19

Israeli collaborators so maybe accused of giving information re the location of hostages or Hamas leaders.

Nice crowd response, cheers & chants.

It’s a terrorist state.
Hamas are riding high now Palestine has been recognized as a state.
The deaths of all those women and children has paid off. Hamas don’t care about the deaths, it’s only the hand wringers in the West that somehow think supporting radical Islam is the way forward.

Twiglets1 · 23/09/2025 09:19

Israeli collaborators so maybe accused of giving information re the location of hostages or Hamas leaders.

Nice crowd response, cheers & chants.

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Beachtastic · 23/09/2025 09:10

Ah shit 😟 I wonder what they were trying to do 😔

Twiglets1 · 23/09/2025 07:26

Same story reported in the Telegraph:

Hamas has executed three Palestinians accused of “collaborating” with Israel on the streets of Gaza.

Footage posted on Hamas-affiliated Telegram accounts showed armed and masked members of the group lining up three blindfolded Palestinians in a public square in Gaza.

Chants of “Allahu Akbar” were heard among the crowd as they gathered to watch and film the public execution.

The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis provided The Telegraph with an English translation of the execution video.

Elsewhere in Gaza, the Israeli military announced it killed at least 16 members of terror groups in Gaza City in the past 24 hours, including Iyad Abu Yusuf, deputy commander of Hamas’s naval police.

The attack on Mr Yusuf took place in central Gaza City in a joint operation by the Israeli Navy, the IDF Intelligence Directorate, and the Israeli Air Force.

On Sunday, IDF troops also struck a weapons manufacturing facility in Gaza City, while the air force launched attacks against members of terror groups in Khan Yunis and Rafah in southern Gaza.

Israel estimates that more than 550,000 civilians have left Gaza City in recent weeks amid the IDF offensive, with around 500,000 still in the besieged city.

www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/09/22/hamas-executes-israeli-collaborators-streets-gaza/

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