Hamas threatens Gazans collaborating with Israel after gang leader taunts family of slain Rafah gunman

Abu Obeida, the spokesman for al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, threatens “a dark fate is coming soon” for Israeli-backed Palestinian forces in Gaza.

The threat appears to come in response to a statement by an anti-Hamas gang leader who mocked the death in battle this morning of the scion of a prominent Hamas family.

“These femboys act like men only in areas controlled by the Zionist army and under the protection of its tanks,” says Abu Obeida in a statement, accusing Israeli-backed forces of “aligning completely with the occupation, implementing its agendas and exchanging roles with it.”

“A dark fate is coming soon for those tracking dogs and tools of the occupation, the grandsons of Abu Righal,” Abu Obeida says, referring to a man identified in the Muslim tradition as a traitor for having divulged the road to the Kaaba in Mecca to a king who wanted to destroy it.

“Their ending will be death and annihilation, and the enemy will not protect them from the justice of our people,” says Abu Obeida.

“Godspeed to our heroic resistance fighters besieged in Rafah… who preferred martyrdom to surrender. Their story will be taught for generations,” added Abu Obeida, referring to four gunmen whom the IDF said it killed this morning after they emerged from a tunnel in Rafah.

Abu Obeida’s threat comes after Ghassan al-Dahini, leader of the Israeli-backed Abu Shabab gang near Rafah, taunted one of the gunmen’s family over their son’s death.

In a social media post, Dahini shared what he said was footage of the gunman being bombed, as well as a graphic photo of the gunman’s mangled head after the strike. Dahini’s post did not say that the IDF killed the four gunmen or explicitly take credit for the killing.

Calling the gunman a “killer criminal,” Dahini said: “Does anyone know this brother?… I know him.”

“Tell his mother he’s not coming home,” wrote Dahini. “Tell her, ‘Your son got what he asked for.'”

“I want his family to know how the terrorist Hamas sold him for cheap and its leader fled through the crossing,” added Dahini, referring to the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt, which reopened last week and which Dahini’s militia, which has been accused of stealing humanitarian aid, claims to be helping administer.

Hamas’s Sahm 103 unit, which targets suspected collaborators with Israel, claimed that, after the “four besieged resistance fighters” were killed by the IDF in Rafah this morning, Dahini “appeared beside the bodies, expressing his joy at the news” of the gunmen’s death.

Sahm claimed Dahini took credit for the killing of the four gunmen, “despite knowing full well that it was the occupation that bombed them.” The Hamas unit also denied Dahini’s claim that Hamas leaders had fled Gaza through the Rafah Crossing,

According to the Hamas unit, the gunman mocked by Dahini was Anas al-Nashar, whose two brothers were also killed by Israel, and whose father, Issa, is a senior Hamas official in Gaza and former mayor of Rafah.

The slain gunman’s mother, who goes unnamed in the statement, is the sister of Hamas’s East Rafah Battalion commander Mohammad Bawab, whom Israel killed in December, also after he emerged from a tunnel in Rafah, according to Sahm.

“While this family mourns a procession of martyrs, the wife of the agent Dahini sits on social media, begging with donation links, unsatisfied with what was stolen from the people’s aid,” Sahm accused.