Hamas Is Purging Gaza of Its Critics
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It didn’t take long. Barely an hour after Israeli forces withdrew from the Gaza war zone, Hamas gunmen—suddenly without their usual target—turned their weapons on their own people. Their bloodlust, it seems, knows no bounds.
Few were surprised. This is Hamas, and this is Gaza—where brutality has become a political tool. Anyone who helped negotiate the ceasefire likely understood that the next wave of violence would come from within.
Much of the internal bloodshed in recent days has centered around the Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza City, where Hamas launched what it called a “security campaign” against rival factions, reportedly including the powerful Dormush clan. Similar operations have been reported in Deir al-Balah against the Abu Samra family, and in Khan Younis and Rafah against militia leaders accused of collaborating with Israel or accepting support from outside sources.
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Graphic footage circulating online shows Hamas fighters conducting public executions—dragging shirtless prisoners through crowds, beating them, and shooting them before onlookers. One video, marked with the insignia of Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades, showed militants driving through the streets with dead bodies at their feet.
Hamas has never hesitated to execute its own people when it served their purposes. But now, emboldened by the absence of Israeli drones overhead, the group has begun openly rounding up and killing perceived enemies in the streets. Videos began surfacing within hours of the ceasefire announcement—footage too graphic to share publicly—showing clan militias and Hamas enforcers carrying out summary executions.
As a Palestinian who opposes Hamas and rejects the myths our society keeps recycling, I cannot stay silent about the hypocrisy of those in the West who still defend this regime.
How can anyone claim to support “resistance” when that resistance includes executing unarmed Palestinians in public squares—without trial, without justice, without mercy? How can you claim to stand for human rights while excusing the murder of innocents simply because it doesn’t fit a convenient narrative?
The silence from Western liberals is deafening. When Jews defend themselves, it’s called “genocide.” But when Hamas executes Palestinians in cold blood, it’s “resistance.” And now that ceasefire videos show children dancing in the streets, those same voices have quietly dropped the “genocide” talking points they shouted for months.
Where are the protesters now? Many of them are opposing the very ceasefire they once demanded. They were never truly for the people of Palestine—because if they were, they’d be calling for the eradication of Hamas by any means necessary. But doing that would require confronting a grim reality: Hamas’s barbarism isn’t an anomaly in Gaza—it’s a reflection of a broader culture that glorifies death over life.
Even the American left finds itself speechless. They can’t praise President Trump’s leadership—though even Joe Biden acknowledged his role in securing the ceasefire—without contradicting years of political posturing. Nor can they focus on Hamas’s atrocities without shattering the fragile “genocide” narrative they’ve built.
The reality is simple: Israel was forced into war by Hamas’s murderous attacks, and even when Israel withdraws, Hamas’s obsession with death drives it to slaughter its own. That’s not resistance. That’s nihilism disguised as revolution.
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