The guns have fallen silent between Israel and Hamas, but in Gaza\u2019s battered streets, the killing has not stopped. Instead, a new kind of violence has taken hold\u2014Palestinian against Palestinian\u2014as Hamas turns its weapons on its own people. What was meant to be the dawn of peace has become a grim reminder of how power is maintained in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moumen Al-Natour, a lawyer and former Hamas political prisoner, spoke from hiding inside Gaza. \u201cAfter the fire stopped, Hamas fighters came out of the tunnels and massacred families that opposed them,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are sending a signal that they are back\u2014by terrorizing people.\u201d Al-Natour, who leads the group Palestinian Youth for Development, described how Hamas has begun hunting down anyone suspected of disloyalty, from rival clan members to ordinary citizens who dared to criticize them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reuters and Fox News report that at least 33 Palestinians have been executed in recent days, many of them shot in the streets or taken from their homes. Videos verified by international outlets show blindfolded men kneeling before Hamas gunmen in Gaza City\u2019s al-Sabra neighborhood as the crowd shouts \u201cAllahu Akbar.\u201d The victims, Hamas claims, were criminals or collaborators with Israel. Locals say they were simply rivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hamas\u2019s political bureau member Mohammed Nazzal defended the killings during an interview with Reuters. He described the executions as \u201cexceptional measures\u201d taken to restore order after the war and said those killed were \u201ccriminals guilty of killing.\u201d Nazzal also refused to commit to disarming, despite this being one of the core demands in President Donald Trump\u2019s peace deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When asked how long the violence would continue, Nazzal said Hamas would accept a five-year ceasefire to rebuild Gaza if it was offered what he called \u201chorizons and hope\u201d for eventual statehood. But the group insists it will retain its weapons to \u201cdefend the resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hamas\u2019s actions, however, suggest something far darker. According to Al-Natour, \u201cThe people Hamas is killing now are just like me\u2014Palestinians who dared to speak.\u201d He said that since the ceasefire began, Hamas has targeted clans and communities that resisted their rule during the war, including the Doghmush family in Gaza City, the Abu Shabab clan in Rafah, and the Mujaida clan in Khan Younis. Each has faced armed raids, arrests, or executions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joseph Braude, president of the Center for Peace Communications, said the terror group is using the chaos to settle old scores. \u201cIt\u2019s a dark time for Hamas\u2019s many opponents in Gaza,\u201d he told Fox News Digital. \u201cThey\u2019re exploiting this moment to reassert dominance through brute force. They killed a pregnant woman about 18 hours ago. It is indiscriminate killing designed simply to sow fear in ordinary people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Trump responded swiftly to reports of the killings, issuing a warning on Truth Social after footage emerged of public executions in Gaza City\u2019s main square. \u201cIf Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump\u2019s 20-point Gaza peace plan, which ended two years of war, had required Hamas to release hostages and lay down its weapons in exchange for limited autonomy and international aid. Instead, Hamas has defied those terms while tightening its grip. \u201cHamas is supposed to release all hostages in stage one,\u201d read a statement from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office. \u201cHamas are to be disarmed under this agreement. No ifs, no buts. They have not. They are running out of time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a follow-up comment, Trump acknowledged that his administration had given Hamas \u201ctemporary approval\u201d to police Gaza until a transitional authority could form. \u201cThey\u2019ve been open about it, and we gave them approval for a period of time,\u201d he told reporters. Later, he clarified that while some internal policing was acceptable, \u201ctaking out gangs\u201d did not mean mass executions. U.S. Central Command issued its own statement warning Hamas to stop firing on civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gaza\u2019s once-powerful clans, some of which had received quiet support from Israel, have become the main targets of Hamas\u2019s revenge campaign. The Doghmush clan, long a thorn in Hamas\u2019s side, saw multiple members executed after street battles erupted in Gaza City. Nizar Doghmush, a family leader, told The New York Times that the dead included relatives accused by Hamas of being collaborators. \u201cThey came into our neighborhood after dark,\u201d he said. \u201cThey checked IDs and dragged people away. Some never came back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Rafah, the Abu Shabab clan\u2014alleged by Hamas to have received weapons from Israel\u2014has also come under attack. Israeli officials previously confirmed they had armed clans like Abu Shabab\u2019s to counter Hamas\u2019s rule, but now those same groups are being hunted down. \u201cThis adventure was only ever going to end one way,\u201d said Michael Milshtein, a former Israeli intelligence officer. \u201cWe armed and supported these militias, and now Hamas is coming for its revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hamas officials have warned that they will pursue any \u201ccriminal gangs\u201d that threaten \u201ccivil peace.\u201d They offered amnesty to anyone not directly involved in killings but vowed that those who refused to surrender \u201cwould face consequences.\u201d The group\u2019s Interior Ministry described its campaign as essential to \u201cmaintaining public safety and property,\u201d even as dozens of bodies arrive daily at Gaza hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump\u2019s peace framework envisioned a demilitarized Gaza run by local Palestinians under international supervision. Reconstruction was supposed to begin in the areas behind the Israeli \u201cyellow line,\u201d where anti-Hamas groups could form self-governing enclaves. But that vision is now unraveling amid the bloodshed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Braude explained that Gaza has become \u201cbifurcated,\u201d with Israeli-backed zones attempting to rebuild while Hamas enforces control elsewhere. \u201cGazans opposed to Hamas can help form enclaves of self-rule that evolve into a transitional authority,\u201d he said. \u201cBut they can\u2019t do that while Hamas is killing them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Gaza City, witnesses describe scenes of terror. One man told reporters that \u201cgangs are in the streets,\u201d while another pleaded, \u201cNo one knows who will rule or what will happen next. We just want to live without bloodshed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hamas\u2019s violence appears to have paralyzed any hope of a unified Palestinian front. Palestinian analyst Reham Owda said the killings are designed \u201cto deter groups that collaborated with Israel and to prove Hamas\u2019s security officers should remain part of any future government.\u201d But Israel has already rejected that idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ceasefire that was supposed to end the war has instead exposed the depth of Gaza\u2019s divisions. Hamas\u2019s campaign of executions is being framed as law enforcement, but in practice, it is revenge\u2014revenge against those who challenged their rule and those who might still do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Gaza\u2019s streets run with blood, the so-called peace looks increasingly fragile. \u201cWe can build a governing body in these zones,\u201d said Al-Natour, referring to Trump\u2019s framework. \u201cBut those of us who speak out are hunted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For now, the ceasefire exists only in name. The airstrikes have stopped, but the terror continues. What began as a truce between nations is rapidly turning into a war within Gaza itself\u2014a struggle not for freedom, but for absolute power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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