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2025-07-21 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Head of anti-Hamas Gaza militia says it’s backed by vast tribal network, not by Israel
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[IsraelTimes] Yasser Abu Shabab tells British media he’s just an ordinary Palestinian trying to help his people, dreams of Strip being open to world, including Israel, after the war
The leader of a Gazook militia operating in an area under Israeli military control said on Sunday in an interview with British media that his group is not funded or armed by Israel, describing himself as "just an ordinary Paleostinian person who cares about his own people."
Hamas
 ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
has accused Yasser Abu Shabaab of being a criminal, a looter, and a traitor, and earlier this month demanded that he turn himself in to the terror group for prosecution.
"Hamas either accuses their [opponents] of being traitors working with Israel or being criminals. I am neither of these," Shabaab told the Sunday Times. "I was an ordinary construction worker before the war. I have no military training. I am just an ordinary Paleostinian person who cares about his own people."
He added that if a ceasefire is reached between Israel and Hamas, he and his group will need "international protection" from the terror group that rules Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
, which he said would likely use the pause to crack down on internal dissent.
According to Abu Shabaab, Hamas has killed 52 members of his family, including his brother.
He denied accusations by the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
that his group was looting aid entering Gaza, or that he had direct involvement with Israel. He said his group was funded and armed by supporters within his tribal network.
The comments contradicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s confirmation last month that Israel had given weapons to the group. The decision to start arming the group was made without the approval of the security cabinet, forgoing normal procedure. It was instead led by security bodies, with Netanyahu’s approval, defense sources said at the time.
"I’m from the Tarabin family. We are a big tribe that extends not only to Gaza, but also to Egypt, to Jordan, and even into some Gulf countries. Notable members of our family contributed money, and we used this money to buy products from the markets in Gaza and give it to needy people from our community," Abu Shabaab told the Times.
"When I saw our people were suffering from the fact Hamas was stealing aid and was bringing this war with Israel upon the Gazooks, leaving our people struggling and displaced, the idea sparked to create a safe zone for our people where we don’t fight," he added. "So my tribe and my family started to distribute aid to people who were in need."
According to the report, the "most prominent wealthy member" of the Tarabins is Ibrahim al-Arjani, a Sinai-based Egyptian businessman who made millions from charging Paleostinians fees for using the Rafah crossing to flee the war in Gaza.
When asked if his militia could manage the Rafah Crossing after the war, Abu Shabaab said: "Of course."
But "first we need to defeat terrorism," he said, adding that his "ideal" vision for postwar Gaza is "one open to the world, to Egypt, Arab countries and Israel."
"Many of my family members live in Israel in a good situation without any discrimination," he said.
Abu Shabaab has been seen operating in southern Gaza’s Rafah and Khan Younis, and represents the first significant internal armed opposition movement to Hamas’s rule over the Strip’s residents.
According to Hamas sources who spoke with the Lebanese al-Akhbar outlet last month, the militia comprises some 300 people, of whom Abu Shabaab personally recruited around 50. They alleged that the remaining 250 members were recruited through the Paleostinian Authority’s intelligence service.
The group emerged in Rafah in May 2024, following the IDF incursion into the Strip’s southernmost city, the Hamas sources said. They told al-Akhbar that the al-Qassam Brigades have "already started carrying out direct liquidations" of members of Abu Shabaab’s gang, and that its continued existence has fast become a "central issue" for the terror group.
The Hamas sources did not offer proof of Abu Shabaab’s alleged ties to the Ramallah-based Paleostinian Authority, and al-Akhbar did not verify any of the terror group’s claims.
According to the sources, some members of the group belong to an bad boy Salafi faction that had run-ins with Hamas prior to the war as well.
This is not the first time that Netanyahu has been involved in or accused of propping up militias and terror groups to undermine a common enemy.
Various reports over the years have indicated that Israel’s policy under Netanyahu was to treat Hamas as an asset that could be used to weaken the Paleostinian Authority.
Israeli forces have operated inside the Gaza Strip for some 21 months, since the Hamas-led terror onslaught on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage, 50 of whom are still held captive.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 454.
During this time, more than 58,000 people have been killed in the Strip, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry.
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