Footage shows public executions in Gaza City street

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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

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/

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

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.

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.

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.

Nothing says statehood quite like public executions hey?

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.

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.

True, that's definitely an option. Though it's a high risk strategy in case he escapes. But again, you're expecting Hamas to act in a far more civilised way than Israel would have done here.

Israel would have just executed them, even so they have ample prisons that they like filling with Palestinians and detaining them without charge.

Just a reminder of how the French treated French Nazi collaborators and they’d only been under occupation for a few years v decades.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartime_collaboration

Interesting to see posters making excuses for this.

It speaks volumes.

Do you think that before the conflict, Hamas arrested alleged collaborators, read them their rights, ensured they had legal representation and then offered them a fair trial?

Hamas was born from this conflict, there's never been a 'before conflict' time. If you mean before 7/10, I have no clue on their justice system. I suspect it would be lacking, but it's pretty irrelevant for now. In the same period you're talking about, Israel were similarly executing its enemies, including those within Gaza, whenever it fancied.

It's all Israel's fault apparently for making them feel so shit that they have to behave like, errrmmm, terrorists 🤡

Hamas has previously carried out extra judicial killings and executed people who opposed them under the claim of them being collaborators . They were doing it in 2013 so long before the current conflict. There were no trials and the usual claim is that the people killed were Israeli informants. Often it's a cover for clan rivalries . No trial and just seized from a vehicle then shot and bodies then kicked, spat on and dragged behind a motorbike

www.cbc.ca/news/world/hamas-militants-kill-6-suspected-informers-witnesses-say-1.1172426

Were these people collaborators? Who knows, no evidence, no trial and no chance to plead their case. Just shot in public. Good way to scare the rest of the population into not going against Hamas

‘Emotions are running high’

Crikey

Horrendous. I suppose it shows what people will excuse.

Yes to this.

Yes, it's appalling, but can someone honestly answer how it is any worse than Israel bombing a household full of people to execute someone from Hamas?

My query is not that Hamas is excusable here, but why don't you apply your same logic to what the IDF is doing on a far larger scale?

They should have surrendered, obviously, instead of fighting this losing battle and executing their own.

'Not sure what they should have done' is an unbelievable way of viewing this.

Hamas started a war.

And fight dirty (using civilians as cover).

Totally agree. Idiotic.

Israeli government- killing the enemy to look out for Israeli future ( massively simplified but you get the idea.)

Hamas- killing the enemy and their own people, and anyone who does something they don't align with.

Can you honestly not see how one is worse than the other?