Footage shows public executions in Gaza City street

[Twiglets1]

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

No they kill everyone else with much cheering and encouragement.

Like I said you have a weird hierarchy of death. Executing people who you think are your enemy( so long as they hold a different citizenship) with the killing and maiming of innocent people - mumsnet pro Israeli folk give a big thumbs up.

Execute people who you think are your enemy but share the same citizenship(well they aren't allowed citizenship but you know what I mean), don't kill innocent people - booo!

It might make sense to you but it sure as heck doesn't to me.

They’ll be war criminals soon enough. Technically if they go to Spain they already are. So that’s your beautiful IDF.

My SIL lives in Israel and has been out protesting against Netanyahu and posting about this on SM. She is free to do so without fear to her own personal wellbeing. Unlike those who speak out against Hamas.

I am not defending Hamas in any way shape or form. This person is purposely highlighting that civilians were demonstrating hate. I believe that it is an attempt to justify their suffering. I am simply pointing out the other side of the coin.

It is of course preferable to live in Isreal even under the current administration than it is to live in Gaza where you are at risk from Israel and Hamas. But I struggle to understand why some murders are applauded by Israeli supporters and some are demonised. They are all awful.

If my kid was killed by the murdering scum in the IDF and then people who collaborated with these murdering scum, including the head of a gang who shot Palestinians and stole from them, was paraded out and executed I would likely cheer and I am anti the death penalty.

When you have had everything taken from you, house blown up, family murdered, driven from place to place with no food, medicine or shelter - PTSD from the bombs and then suddenly there is someone who has worked with the people who did this to you and you expect these people to behave dignified and say “well I think they deserve a fair trial”. It is easy to judge from your comfy armchair in Israel, the US or the UK but imagine how you would feel if lost everything and everyone, if each night you hear bombs and do not know if you will wake in the morning. Ask yourself, would you cheer.

I don’t have a weird hierarchy of death.

I just have a basic understanding that in war the enemy is the other side.

The whole IDF can’t be war criminals, in Spain or anywhere else.

Individual members of the IDF can be war criminals if they are found to have committed war crimes but it’s not a war crime just to be in an army fighting a war.

No I wouldn’t cheer and chant because it would be horrible to see someone executed in the street for an alleged crime that I wouldn’t even know if they were guilty of or not. It’s not like they had received a fair trial is it? Just Hamas deciding they were guilty of something and murdering them.

Weird as always how people rush to defend Hamas & their supporters.

Ah yeah, how silly of me. Obviously someone who is collaborating with Israel is on the side of Palestinians

This thread is like the twighlight zone. People who have been cheering on and excusing extreme violence without a shred of evidence except 'Israel said so' , excusing the holding and torture of people who haven't even been charged with a crime in Israeli prisons, suddenly wanting fair trials for alleged crimes. One rule for thee another for me. Again.

You can blow up a whole apartment block full of families if you think there may be a terrorist inside, you can shoot random people in the street if you think they may be a terrorist because remember terrorists don't wear uniforms so they could be anyone, if you think some one is working with your enemy though you must absolutely find them a lawyer and give them a fair trial(unless your enemy is Hamas of course then screw evidence and trials blow that fucker and everybody within a 100metre radius up). It makes complete sense if you have a basic understanding of the pro Israel mindset.

Arguing with you is like the twilight zone too - reminder to self not to bother.

I have human compassion for everyone suffering in this war.

Can’t you see that it’s a tragedy when a child is shot by a sniper whether that child presents a danger or not, because no child should ever be put in a position in which it MIGHT present a lethal threat? A child that’s a Hamas operative is still a child.

Can’t you see that it’s a tragedy that a man like Sinwar, clearly highly intelligent and capable, chose as his crowning achievement Oct 7 and the misery that’s followed?

While I do think that a lot of terrorists have got their just deserts jn this war, every death is a waste.

I think your perspective on the executions is naive at best. You can insult me all day long, you’re not going to change my perspective on an organisation that executes its people in the street.

I guess avoiding responding means you don't have to actually deal with the issues posed. Happens time and time again here. When difficult questions are posed, you respond with some version of this or decide it's time to 'take a break'.

It's happened so frequently now it's very transparent what you are doing and why.

Boring - contribute something to the thread if you can step away from focusing on me.

Israel is a country which kills young people seeking food.

I'd just like to point out that any rival political faction to Hamas will indeed have to be armed and collaborate with Israel. Collaboration with Israel is the only way forward for a Palestinian state.

This is an extra judicial execution, and people on here are sympathizing with Hamas over it.

It boggles my mind ( yet again ) that on a post about an atrocity commited by Hamas to the detriment of its own people, rather than people popping up to wholeheartedly condemn it instead we have the usual suspects just here to criticize Israel.

Gazan civilians are being brutalized by both Israel, their enemy in this war, and by their own government, whos purpose should be to protect them and improve their lives. Theres absolutely no way forward for Palestine with Hamas anywhere near power.

Im aware Hamas isnt on mumsnet but I'm absolutely sure they are emboldened by this kind of attitude in the West.

Those on this thread just to point out the sins of Israel rather than just calling for Hamas to f off forever should be asking themselves why they care more about hating Israel than Hamas.

People get killed in airstrikes, that is war. Totally different to lining people up and shooting them, I've no idea how you can't see it.

Let's try another. In the NI 'troubles' ira terrorists were targeted and killed. That is different to targeting a lorry full of soldiers and blowing them up.

Terrorists bad, security and army forces trying to get rid of said terrorists good. Does that help a bit?

None of us have said that these executions are ok. We have just said we have to treat executions in both sides alike, and both are equally wrong.

Being anti death penalty and being a pacifist (so disagreeing with both Israeli and Hamas executions) is pro Hamas now is it?

Well you're the first to equate them and peace.

People get killed in airstrikes, that is war. Totally different to lining people up and shooting them, I've no idea how you can't see it.

@Gloriia So everybody on this thread condemned the Rafah paramedic massacre where Israel lined up the red cross workers, shot them and then buried them in a mass grave along with the vehicles that they destroyed, then lied about what actually happened. Oh wait....

Oh I see now. So will you also be condemning the deaths of children in Gaza from bullet wounds? Reported as shot by IDf snipers. What about the execution of health care workers?

The Israeli administration and the IDF are no better than Hamas.

My problem with the thread is that it was set up to say oh look at those savage Palestinians cheering on executions when half of the posters here have been doing the same thing from the comfort of their sofas for months. At least Palestinians have the excuse that they have been living in utter hell being chased down across Gaza and starved by genocidal maniacs for 2 years.

I'm not sure how posters can with a straight face criticise Palestinians and their reactions under extreme stress when they've been excusing and cheering on Israels extreme violence across many countries for months now.

No one has been cheering on deaths in gaza, rather very patiently explaining deaths sadly occur in a war and these terrorists increase civilian deaths by setting up shop in civilian areas.

'I'm not sure how posters can with a straight face criticise Palestinians and their reactions under extreme stress'

You're not sure how anyone can criticise terrorists lining civilians up getting them to kneel and murdering them in cold blood, really? Honestly I've read it all now.

'Reported as shot by IDf snipers'

Reported by whom, those bastions of truth tellers hamas?

We had the story of a boy allegedly talking to that Aguilera bloke then 'reported as shot by IDF snipers' who lo and behold was on telly a couple of weeks ago.

It wasn't set up to say look at those savage Palestinians. It was set up to say- look at savage Hamas. Why would you think otherwise?

I despair for Gazan civilians. Trapped between the IDF who obviously accept an atrocious level of civilian deaths in their war aims, and their own government who shoots dissidents and refuses to surrender actively courts their own death in support of the cause. I cant imagine the hopelessness. All those people still in Gaza City- are they thinking- I have nothing to live for, I will die soon one way or another, why should I leave?

You seem truly invested in the idea that some of us hate Palestinians. Speaking for myself, I dont. I hate Hamas. You also seem invested in the idea that some of us are cheering on the violence. Again, I haven't seen any cheering on. Its awful to watch the violence and I fervently hope it all ends asap. We only disagree on how the end should come about- but we all hope for it.

Thats me done for today. Another absolute rabbithole of a thread.

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

Nice crowd response, cheers & chant s.

What Twiglets chose to say after all of her copy and pasting. Not criticism of Hamas, she chose to focus on the crowd response. That's why I think she set up the thread to say look at those savage Palestinians because that is who she chose to put her focus on.

I was saying that about the Hamas supporters who cheered on their public executions in a Gazan street as though it were free entertainment.

For clarity, I have no sympathy for Hamas or their supporters.

I do not in my mind equate Hamas supporters with the whole population of Gaza so no, the thread was not intended to imply that all Palestinians are "savage" just the Hamas loving ones.