Hamas has kidnapped and executed at least six protesters from last week’s protests against Hamas in Gaza, reported India Today.
Others have been publicly flogged, several kidnapped, and numerous Gazans remain missing.
According to The Free Press, Oday Nasser Al’ Rabays (22), a resident of Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood,
had called for public protests and spoken out against Hamas on social media. He was abducted by about 30 armed men from the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, when they stormed his home and dragged him away.
His family says Oday was tortured for hours, until he died. They had broken his fingers, stabbed him repeatedly, and smashed his head with a rifle butt before dropping his body off a rooftop. A note was pinned to his clothes: “This is the price for all who criticize Hamas.”
“Hamas is oppressing people in a brutal way… Like a puppy on a rope around his neck, they dragged him to the door of his house and told his family that this is the punishment for those who complain about Hamas,” Mazen Shat, a senior police officer affiliated with Fatah from Ramallah and a vocal critic of Hamas, told UK-based The Telegraph.
“He (Rabay) was dragged by a rope around his neck, beaten with clubs and metal rods in front of passersby,” a Gazan, seeking anonymity, told the Rishon LeZion-based Israeli news outlet, Ynet.
Another Gazan was kidnapped, beaten, shot in the legs, and left wounded in a public square in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, reported the Israeli news outlet.
“It is about people’s lives… We want to stop the killing and displacement, no matter the price. We can’t stop Israel from killing us, but we can press Hamas to give concessions,” Beit Hanoun resident Mohammed Abu Saker told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
Egyptian political analyst Dalia Ziada said on X that this “uprising” is “different” because Hamas is “lonely and devastated”, its “Qatari-sponsored media has lost credibility”.
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