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

I've never said I haven't seen jokes on MN. You're probably referring to a previous comment I made about never seeing people joking about children being shot. And if I'm policing these threads I'm not doing a very good job am I? People seem to think they can say what they want when I'm around!

Jokes about bots or Israel jamming the radios on Greta's flotilla with Abba music because she's Swedish are lighter topics I hope you agree.

I'm not going to apologise for having a sense of humour and I'm 100% sure it doesn't hurt anyone in Gaza for me to joke about bots or Greta and her futilla.

Is it sunk cost fallacy?

We only one about the one Abu Shabab as far as I'm aware. He's pretty well known though. I think the assumption is the 3 men are linked, but frankly who knows. I made that clear in my first post on this.

Interestingly he's still listed as on the run online, so either things haven't been updated or it wasn't him.

As to whether he's a good guy or not, I think the jury's out. However given Israel's actions I'm naturally suspicious of anyone who is literally funded and served by Israel. Even before that though he's had his own armed militia for donkeys years. He's stared that he's anti Hamas but little about what he actually believes in. He may or may not depending on what you read, have links with ISIS. He's certainly made no commitments to democracy.

You're right though that it's very difficult for any viable opposition to emerge in Gaza. But perhaps people could bear that in mind when they suggest people overthrow Hamas. Or when lack of resistance is used a justification for continued genocide.

Barbaric.

Did any of my previous response make any sense to you?

Sorry @Beachtastic but no it didn’t

No functioning prisons - but plenty of places to imprison dozens of kidnapped Israeli civilians... eh, ok.

🥱🙄

What a surprise.

Either no capacity to engage, or no interest in engaging.

Oh dear! 🤓

Well, I did my best...!

I would think that applies to the people failing to consider that they are now and have been supporting genocide

One man’s genocide is another man’s freedom fight.

I am not Jewish and yet I can see past Hamas propaganda. Jewish people will always have my support.

Even if they are committing Genocide @CatsMagic ? I support people according to their actions so love Jewish people such as Albie Sachs, don’t love Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, Smotrich

No one is 'supporting a genocide'. It is a conflict.

Why don't you ever ponder over why hamas don't try and protect their citizens a bit, why is there no outrage that they set up shop right in the middle of communities? It's their fault.

Someone even upthread being an apologist for the bayiing mob at the street murders saying 'I'm not sure how posters can with a straight face criticise Palestinians and their reactions under extreme stress '. I mean yes I'll criticise anyone whooping when innocent people are made to kneel and are then shot in the head.

These people

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/israelis-cheer-gaza-bombing
This one is from long before October 7th

www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/07/28/from-a-viewing-platform-in-israel-observers-watch-gazas-destruction-through-binoculars/no

I'll criticise anyone whooping when innocent people are made to kneel and are then shot in the head.

I think you need to do some criticising on Israel for this then.

I haven't seen the IDF make innocent peopel kneel infront of a baying mob, bound and gagged and then shot at close range?

Can you not see the difference between people cheering distant bombing and cheering murder at close range? Granted cheering bombing is absolutely inappropriate but it happens in a conflict.

Cheering and whooping murder at close range is completely different.

Not a baying mob, but that's precisely what they did to those ambulance workers....

Shot in the head executioner style, then the evidence covered up.

Its really quite unbelievable the amount of people on here who are intellectually unable to compare apples to apples.

Have you seen members of the IDF shoot Israelis on the street on broad daylight? Perhaps political opponents, leaders of the opposition, or those accused of sympathizing with Palestinians shot by the IDF on the streets of Tel Aviv?

No. No you have not.

No I can see no difference, in fact this may well be worse

When I see and hear a missile fall on Gaza, I am happy", said Afik with a weird grin on his face. The phenomenon is more than a decade old. First reported by the Guardian in 2014, the Gaza War. They say that residents bring lawn chairs, snacks, and drinks with them as they sit on hilltops to observe airstrikes. There is a binocular installed, some carry their own, some bring their dogs, with alcohol and other substances. There are shops and cafes nearby, making it the perfect picnic spot with the destructive visuals of the Gaza bombings.
The term “Sedrot Cinema” was coined by a Danish photojournalist, Allan Sorensen, who sarcastically called it so, as “Israelis bringing chairs to hilltop in Sderot to watch latest from Gaza. Clapping when blasts are heard.” The tweet went viral and triggered i

Yes you are missing the baying mob, broad daylight, proudly circulated and posted online for all to see. No shame, no regret.

Nobody ever seems to be able to say what, if anything, Hamas has done to protect its people @Gloriia

On this thread we have seen that even summarily executing them is hand waved away.

Summary execution being justified because you don’t have a prison infrastructure - even though you do have a sophisticated tunnel network under civilian areas and keep captives both there and in civilian homes - is probably my favourite excuse though.

”Sderot cinema”” going on for decades long before October 7th, what was Israeli’s excuse for such depravity then??

It's absolutely appalling. The poor crowd! don't call them a baying mob <when that is what they are> .

What about all the rockets Gaza's been lobbing at Israel all these years? Do you think that might have a connection to the Sderot cinema you mentionned?

Or shall we conveniently ignore that mmm? Its ok for Hamas to aim their rockets at civilians in Israel but not ok for Israelis to do the same?