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

Bad faith, discussion limiting accusations of “racism”. Honestly think it best to just ignore posters who do this now - they’re stuck in circa 2015/16.

What about the ones before the IDF Apaches arrived? Don't tell me, the whole thing was a false flag operation?

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Who are you trying to help with this?

Careful, wouldn't want to sound like you don't know that lots of Israelis are brown.

The hamas leadership are living in Qatar. They are a terrorist organisation who use the civilian population as human shields. Any dissent from support of Hamas risks loss of life/public executions.

However / there is no win for Israel in continuing their bombardment of Hamas’ military - which is deeply embedded in civilian areas. They have lost the support of allies and should have been much much more strategic in their response to October 7th attacks.

Yes, this. Northern Ireland, post war France as mentioned by a pp, any war zone where people collaborate with the enemy. Unfortunately this is what war breeds.

Hamas has paid soldiers/fighters. They receive a monthly salary. It has an annual military budget of over $200m. Much of this money has come from Qatar via the UN , Iran and humanitarian aid over the last few decades.

There are even well documented photos of a Hamas military passing out parade in Gaza city before 2023.

In my view - this constitutes a well trained and well funded army.

What "colour" do you think the people of Israel are?

You couldn't really get more strategic/specifically targeted than the pagers, but that too seems to be frowned upon here.

The only way Israel could have won MN hearts and minds is if they withheld any action until intelligence reports identified with 100% certainty who was "Hamas" and who was "not Hamas" (good luck with that one, given the eager participation of civilian mobs in the attacks!) and then politely knocked on their doors to invite them for a cup of tea and a chat about how they would like their situation improved. All at enormous risk to Israel of course, but who gives a shit about that?

The only difference is that they don't wear a uniform. I wonder why that might be...? 🤔

Based on Dawn’s earlier contribution to the thread, I’m guessing white (colonial oppressors).

Yes, th point was very clear. Wow this thread is really something. I mean what colour do they think most Israelis are?!

Israelis cheering on the hillside watching Palestinian people being bombed.

Israeli’s chanting death to the Arabs

Israeli politicians openly talk about ethnic cleansing.

People on MN make excuses for blocking aid to a civilian population.

Pro Israeli supporters in the west look at children starving to death and shrug it off, apparently being starved to death is ok if you have an underlying condition.

Pro Israeli supporters in the west make excuses about Gaza having the highest number of child amputees in the world.

It just seems to me like there is an awful lot of hate on both sides and an awful lot of suffering in the middle.

This conflict started long before October 7th. Don’t act stupid.

On both sides. But war was declared on 7 October because Hamas escalated conflict to a whole new level. Don't act stupid.

"Less emphasis on human rights than we'd like" oh come now.

Even Amnesty International condemned their routine use of torture and murder against political rivals Fatah during the 2014 conflict: "As well as carrying out unlawful killings, others abducted by Hamas were subjected to torture, including severe beatings with truncheons, gun butts, hoses and wire or held in stress positions. Some were interrogated and tortured or otherwise ill-treated in a disused outpatient’s clinic within the grounds of Gaza City’s main al-Shifa hospital. At least three people arrested during the conflict accused of “collaboration” died in custody."

And whilst the throwing gay people off buildings was Iraq, not Hamas, there is vast amounts of evidence showing how Hamas treat LGBT people - not least UN Watch in 2022: "The Palestinian Authority and Hamas routinely torture human rights activists, women, LGBT persons, political opponents, so-called “collaborators,” and Palestinians who sell land to Jews, the non-governmental group UN Watch charged Thursday. ... Hamas in Gaza also routinely employs torture. Gaza peace activist Rami Aman, who was held by Hamas for more than six months in 2020, <a class="break-all" href="https://rejouer.perma.cc/replay-web-page/w/id-335779ddb582/mp_/www.voanews.com/a/middle-east_gaza-activist-after-lengthy-torture-hamas-forced-me-divorce/6204063.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">spoke publicly about being tortured by Hamas.
In March 2019, Hamas security forces severely beat protesters with batons and clubs and arrested more than 1,000, including journalists and human rights defenders. Many were subjected to torture.
Palestinians accused of “collaborating” with Israel are routinely tortured by both the PA and Hamas.
Torture included beatings, putting out cigarettes on their bodies, pulling out teeth, forcing them into painful positions and abusing their genitals."

That's not a little bit of excusable harassment. That's an intolerant hellhole.

No they really do. Do you not remember the jubilant pager thread? I do. The Qatar thread just a week or so ago had lots of people thinking bombing another sovereign country who had agreed to host peace talks was a great idea.

I just don't understand the pro Israel posters hierarchy of murder that they have going on. How many times have we heard that Israeli children were murdered far more brutally than Palestinian children so that makes the deaths of 37 children worse than the 20000 that have been starved, sniped, blown to pieces etc. I know that you have seen that. We all have.

Yes, it's the sort of human rights abuses that are sadly too common in various countries in the Middle East (and elsewhere).

I think we should stick to facts though. Hence why I corrected the notion (that seems accepted fact by many) that gay people were thrown off buildings, and that human rights were on a par with the Taliban.

Let's stick to what that actually do that's awful - we don't need to be making stuff up at well, that's counterproductive as well as being misleading.

What was the point?
This is who was at the opening of the Palestinian embassy yesterday. Do your MPs drive and abassadors around in bangers then? Who did people think were there? Hamas? Just Arabs because no one else could possibly care? Imagine driving past any other large gathering of diplomats and politicians and people thinking it's noteworthy that they aren't all driving 2004 Nissan micras.

There were MPs by the dozen, about 60 ambassadors, and a smattering of moderately famous faces. Wes Streeting, the health secretary, and John Swinney, the first minister of Scotland, were among those present.

Oh the pagers that targeted Hezbollah officials & militants and killed a lot of them?

Yes it was a shame that some of their family members got killed, they were clearly not the target and didn’t deserve it. It was a military success but an operation rather than a public execution. Very, very clever in that civilian deaths were minimised and not a disproportionate response to the threat that Hezbollah poses to Israel.

Why are you comparing the IDF targeting their enemy ( Hezbollah) who would gladly kill IDF soldiers if they got the chance with Hamas killing their own Palestinian people because they are doing something they don’t like?

Dude if you can't see that people who collaborate with the state that have slaughtered over 60000 people and have the ultimate goal of ethnically cleansing them from their homeland would count as 'the enemy' to those who have been targeted I don't know what to say to you.

Both were executions of an 'enemy' in public without trial to the cheers of various people.

Seriously! Go find a flag to fly.

The IDF don’t kill their own civilians in the street to the sound of other civilians chanting and cheering.

They are an army not a bunch of terrorists though.

Let's not forget, these collaborators were the 'right kind' of terrorist. Yes he headed up an armed militia, but because he's funded by Israel its totally fine...

It's so grimy and hypocritical.

Don't assassinate people should be a principle you hold the IDF to as well as Hamas.

I’m saying that people in Gaza are living in extreme circumstances and we shouldn’t judge them to same standards as those living in safe environments.

Amazing, how you care so much about these characters executed but all the children shot by snipers were actually Hamas operatives rather than just children.