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Sunday, October 12, 2025
Footage allegedly shows Hamas and militias clashing in Gaza City
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Media outlets in Gaza publish footage showing armed men engaged in firefights in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, asserting that Hamas security forces are battling militias that receive support from Israel.
According to some reports, the clashes took place near the homes of members of the Dormush clan, a large and long-established family in Gaza.
Pro-Hamas media reported yesterday that Hamas executed several members of the clan on suspicion of collaborating with Israel, but a statement later released by the Dormush family on social media denied the claim.
A senior source in Hamas’s interior ministry tells Al Jazeera that Hamas security forces have encircled a militia inside Gaza City and are working against it to detain its members. He adds that there are fatalities among Hamas’s security forces in the incident and claims that the militia has killed displaced persons who returned to Gaza City from the southern part of the Strip.
مشاهد حصرية لشبكة Gaza24Live تظهر اشتباكات عنيفة تخوضها عناصر الأجهزة الأمنية ضد ميليشيات تابعة للاحتلال في حيّ الصبرة وسط مدينة غزة pic.twitter.com/j6B0Ded1UH
— غزة 24 | التغطية مستمرة (@Gaza24Live) October 12, 2025
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