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

Ehh.

Hamas was an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.

You attribute the murders to a "breakdown of law and order" so let's take the point where Hamas were elected in Gaza as a point when there was sufficient law and order for them to have had functioning justice. They have never indulged in fair trials for anyone they think might have collaborated with Israel, or for that matter anyone who might collaborate with or be sympathetic to Fatah.

I would be astonished if you have evidence that Israel, poor though it is on length of pre-trial detention, executes its own citizens without trial in public in front of a baying mob for offences of alleged or perceived collaboration, which is the comparator for "similar" behaviour.

Well I’d expect you to remain as cool as a cucumber with endless drone attacks, constant displacement, possible family members killed and only what you can carry as your possessions.

No Hamas didn't start the war. That's been going on decades. There was no peace before 7/10, as Palestinians were still subject to arbitrary detention, shooting ,torture, rape, murder and airstrikes on their homes.

What they were like before 7/10 is irrelevant. I'm not saying they did a good thing. I think it's abhorrent. What I'm puzzled that, is how anyone can believe that these public executions are abhorrent, whilst justifying Israeli executions, which have been happening daily, and often kill innocent children as well.

I'm saying that both are bad. How can you justify one and not the other?

"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.:

They were executing their OWN SIDE!

You think its more acceptable to be executed by your own government with no trial, just a show execution in the street with your countrymen cheering your death?

I honestly cant believe what I'm reading. Just when I think this forum cant surprise me anymore....

I would be astonished if you have evidence that Israel, poor though it is on length of pre-trial detention, executes its own citizens without trial in public in front of a baying mob for offences of alleged or perceived collaboration, which is the comparator for "similar" behaviour.

Ah, so you've put a arbitrary qualification on that - executing a human being who happens to be your own citizen = BAD, executing a human being who happens not to be your citizen (and killing. Perhaps dozens of innocent people at the same time) = totally legit!

Don't you see how bonkers that is.

You're right, Gaza has been raining missiles on Israel for decades and carrying out cross-border attacks. But war began on 7 Oct, and I'm not blaming Israel for that.

@dairydebris This thread truly is something else, hey!?!?

And end with this? Public executions?

Absolutely something else.

On one hand I know its completely pointless posting but on the other some of what is being said is so preposterous, so completely absurd it's almost impossible not to type...

It’s going to be all very awkward for the moral left when what a free Palestine actually means becomes quite apparent

A number of qualifications, not just one, and hardly arbitrary: execution of

• its own citizens
• without trial
• in public
• in front of a baying mob

is bad, yes.

I agree with this. Israel have been blowing people up in the occupied Palestinian territory, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Qatar and Iran for the past 2 years. Posters here have been cheering on those executions. All done without trial, done with civillian casualties including many, many children but they draw the line at this?

People here were laughing their arses off at pager explosions that were done in public, on buses, in supermarkets, they were the baying mob but Hamas execute people and it's suddenly it's wrong? We are pro executions but not like that

Do you know the difference between war and a process of trial and conviction?

Israel has not been 'executing' anyone in any of the countries you list they've been killing terrorists and you should be thanking them.

It is absolutely bizarre that you would liken men been forced to kneel and shot in cold blood by terrorists with the military action by the IDF against said terrorists

Yes hun, 'hamas execute people' and it is indeed very wrong at least you got that bit right .

Hamas are executing their own people in the street but on mumsnet people are using this as an excuse to criticize Israel. Hamas are fucking loving this.

Gosh no we wouldn’t want to be judgemental.

It’s just people enjoying a fun event and who can blame them for finding a bit of entertainment where they can?

Emboldened.

Hamas are executing their own people I think that’s the difference. In front of a crowd who are joining in with cheers and chants.

Hamas execute their own civilians and “suddenly it’s wrong” … hmmm … let me think about that 🤔 yes it’s wrong!

I don’t agree with the death penalty so would always condemn public executions as horrific.

I do think those on here suggesting that this somehow displays a barbarity unique to Hamas should be wary of raising the issue of extrajudicial killings in discussions surrounding Israel.

See photo below detailing just one of the very, very many extrajudicial killings of Palestinians Israel is accused of from a report addressing Israel’s use of the practice from 2014 . There are many, many such reports, happy to post a list but would take up entire thread

You’re missing the point which is Hamas killing their own civilians and being cheered on by a lovely crowd of like minded people.

I don’t imagine collaborators are treated with the upmost respect in most war time environments.

Not just collaborators @TakeMe2Insanity Hamas also has a history of executing Palestinians accused of stealing aid.

In early May, Hamas executed six Palestinians and shot another 13 in their legs after they were accused of looting humanitarian aid.

Surely Gazans should understand hungry people stealing aid? And yet still they cheer on Hamas - after everything they have done.

Their own people? Is that what you think collabators with Israels enemy would be called in Israel? People are thrown in prison and tortured in Israel for being accused of liking Facebook posts ffs.

I mean I agree that its wrong but I don't understand why the people who have been cheering Israels executions think that it's wrong. The pager attacks, done on people with no trial, in public, killed and maimed children, pro Israel reaction - yay!!!

Hamas execute people collaborating with their enemy, no children killed or maimed, booo!

I mean I get it, the inference is look at these savage Palestinians it's no wonder Israel are committing genocide, but I don't see that it's any more or less savage than an Israeli protected by the IDF shooting an unarmed Palestinian in public cheered on by other Israelis so they can have their land. There's loads of videos you can watch of that too. I don't think it means that Israelis deserve to be starved, maimed and killed in their hundreds of thousands though.

So whats your solution? Compassion that they are having the worst moment of their lives or perhaps you’d prefer to exterminate them all?

There was also a protestor against Hamas who was killed as an example to others not to do the same.

That must be hard to excuse surely.