Internal Hamas documents reveal that the terror group’s leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, has been running a secret police force that conducts surveillance on Palestinian civilians in order to quash dissent, according to a US newspaper report.
The report in The New York Times, which reviewed a 62-slide presentation on the activities of Sinwar’s General Security Service, says that the force built dossiers on “young people, journalists and those who questioned the government.”
The unit relied on a network of informants who reported Palestinians for publicly criticizing Hamas, protesting, or “carrying on romantic relationships outside marriage,” according to the New York Times.
“The documents show that Hamas leaders, despite claiming to represent the people of Gaza, would not tolerate even a whiff of dissent,” the report says.
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