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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 652

Abu Shabab

Hamas gunmen at the expected handover of the bodies of four dead hostages, including Shiri Bibas and her two young children, in Khan Younis, south Gaza on February 20, 2025 (Saeed Mohammed/Flash90)
July 7, 2025, 2:40 pm
Senior Hamas commander says group’s control over Gaza has ‘completely collapsed’
BBC report quotes wounded Hamas officer as saying terror group struggling to pay salaries, has lost control of 80% of Gaza and has seen nearly all senior leadership figures killed
By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and AFP
Armed Palestinians sit on trucks carrying humanitarian aid near the Zikim border crossing between Israel and Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, June 25, 2025. (Ali Qariqa/Flash90)
July 6, 2025, 1:43 pm
Cabinet approves plan to let more aid into northern Gaza over hardliner protests
Smotrich joins Ben Gvir in opposing expansion of UN-backed distribution, accuses IDF chief of failing to keep supplies out of Hamas’s hands, PM of letting army make its own decisions
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
A gunman from the Abu Ziyad clan, who appeared in a video in which the family demanded that Hamas hand over operatives responsible for killing one of its relatives. June 2025. (screen capture: Facebook, 27a clause of the copyright law)
July 2, 2025, 4:53 pm
Threats or nuisance? After years of cooperation, some Gaza clans rise up against Hamas
As the war drags on and aid supplies are increasingly precious, large, heavily armed clans in the southern Strip are openly defying the terror group. Could they be viable partners for Israel?
By Nurit Yohanan
People walking next to pictures of hostages held by terrorists in Gaza, in Jerusalem, July 2, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 2, 2025, 2:28 pm
Responding to Trump, Hamas says Gaza deal must ‘clearly lead to complete end’ of war
PM stresses that goals of eliminating Hamas and freeing hostages ‘work together’; 14 said killed in strikes in Gaza; Hamas gives boss of clan armed by Israel 10 days to surrender
By Agencies, ToI Staff and Nurit Yohanan
Members of the Abu Shabab gang in Gaza are seen in an undated video posted by the group. (screen capture: Facebook, 27a clause of the copyright law)
June 13, 2025, 9:54 am
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Has Israel finally launched a counterinsurgency in Gaza?
ToI’s diplomatic reporter on Israel’s arming of the southern Gaza criminal gang headed by Yasser Abu Shabab, a former drug smuggler turned humanitarian aid protector
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
A Palestinian waves a knife and shouts to the camera in Arabic, 'We get food with the taste of death and blood,' as he carries a bag containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
June 12, 2025, 8:19 pm
Hamas police says it killed 12 members of Gaza’s Israeli-backed Abu Shabab militia
US-and-Israeli-backed aid agency accuses Hamas of blocking its employees from receiving treatment after attacking them, as terror group says 21 aid-seekers killed by IDF
By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian, Nava Freiberg and Agencies
Local Palestinian staffers of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in blue vests form a human chain to protect female aid recipients at one of GHF's distribution sites on June 9, 2025. (GHF)
June 12, 2025, 5:29 am
Gaza aid group says Hamas killed at least 8 local staffers, possibly abducted others
GHF says terror group attacked bus ferrying workers to distribution site, while Hamas-linked accounts say its gunmen targeted members of Israel-backed Abu Shabab clan, which the clan denies
By Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman
Displaced Palestinians walk past the ruins of destroyed buildings along the Gaza City shoreline, June 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
June 10, 2025, 2:13 pm
Palestinians say 20 killed near aid site; IDF says troops fired at Gazans who posed threat
Military says toll reported by Palestinian media inconsistent with its data; rocket fired from north Gaza intercepted; IDF says it destroyed 1,200 terror sites in Khan Younis suburb
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Palestinians carry humanitarian aid back from a distribution point at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, early on June 9, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
June 9, 2025, 5:13 pm
GHF says aid site closed due to crowd ‘chaos,’ as Hamas authorities claim 6 killed
Witnesses accuse Israel-backed Abu Shabab militia of firing into crowd at Tel Sultan aid facility; IDF says troops destroyed mile-long tunnel in recent operations
By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid, AP and ToI Staff
Members of the Abu Shabab gang in Gaza are seen in an undated video posted by the group. (screen capture: Facebook, 27a clause of the copyright law)
June 8, 2025, 2:24 pm
Head of Gaza militia cited denying Israel support, demanding Hamas cede power
In unverified quotes, anti-Hamas militia leader Yasser Abu Shabab says coordination with Israel would only take place through mediators and for humanitarian purposes
By ToI Staff
Members of the Abu Shabab gang in Gaza, in screen captures from a recent video posted by the group. (screen capture: Facebook)
June 5, 2025, 11:32 pm
Arab envoy: Netanyahu’s arming of Gaza gang shows ‘he’s learned little since Oct. 7’
Ambassador laments Israeli PM’s unabated effort to weaken PA, warning that latest effort to divide Palestinians ‘increases chances of Somalia-like scenario’ in the Strip
By Jacob Magid
Members of the Abu Shabab gang in Gaza are seen in an undated video posted by the group. (screen capture: Facebook, 27a clause of the copyright law)
June 5, 2025, 5:32 pm
Israel providing guns to Gaza gang to bolster opposition to Hamas
Security cabinet wasn’t informed of plan to start arming Abu Shabab group, which was created in Rafah last year and has its roots in looting aid trucks
By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
People carry boxes of relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the central Gaza Strip on May 29, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
June 5, 2025, 6:26 am
As Gazans clamor for aid, looting and shootings underscore new dangers
Resumption of assistance brings a truckload of deadly issues, as competing actors struggle to safely feed Gazans amid mix of soldiers, armed gangs and terrorists clinging to power
By Nurit Yohanan
A young Palestinian waits to collect donated food at a food distribution kitchen in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Friday, May 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
May 30, 2025, 6:59 pm
Israel claims Hamas losing control over Gaza civilians as GHF ramps up aid operations
But assertion has been made by Israel since beginning of war, and while new aid group says it has fed over 2 million meals this week, that has only amounted to 40 trucks-worth of aid
By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Agencies
Palestinians at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, on May 26, 2025. (Photo by Ali Hassan/Flash90)
May 26, 2025, 7:02 pm
Hamas executes four Gazans it accuses of looting aid as it tries to assert control
Terror group says it is still pursuing seven others it accuses of hijacking aid trucks; death toll in strike on Gaza school that IDF says held key terrorists rises to 36
By Agencies, ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
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