by Jerusalem Post Staff
This is part of an "escalating wave of bloodshed unleashed by Hamas against the ordinary Gazans it purports to represent," the Telegraph reported.
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Some Gazan activists believe that Hamas has been taking advantage of Israel's conflict with Iran to increase its campaign of intimidation while the world is focusing elsewhere, the Telegraph reported on Sunday.
A lot of this violence is carried out by Hamas’s “Arrow” unit (“Wahdat Sahm”).
Ahmed al-Masri, one of the organizers behind the anti-Hamas protests in the north of the enclave in April and May, stood bearing a banner saying "Hamas does not represent us," in video footage seen by the Telegraph.
In the video, al-Masri attempted to spur on other Gazans, "fanning the flames of dissent while many of the people around him nervously averted their faces to avoid being identified on camera."
Al-Masri was abducted by Hamas terrorists in Beit Lahiya and was brutally tortured, multiple sources told The Telegraph.
His feet had been "deliberately broken with large stones and iron crowbars," and he was "shot in the legs," the sources added.
"They shot two people in front of him, then they shot him in the feet. They broke his feet with large stones and crowbars and threw him out in the sun for an hour. Then they brought an ambulance and took him to the hospital, where they beat him on his feet inside the ambulance," a source told the Telegraph.
"He’s in an extremely bad way," one of al-Masri's friends said. “We are trying to do our best for him, but people are terrified of speaking out in case they’re next."
This is part of an "escalating wave of bloodshed unleashed by Hamas against the ordinary Gazans it purports to represent," The Telegraph added.
Hamas is facing an unprecedented squeeze on its military and economic strength, and is "turning to ever crueller methods to keep control of an increasingly desperate population," the report continued.
"After the protests of the last few months, they began executing and arresting people in order to intimidate the population and to terrorise. I think it’s working. After a certain point, the protests disappeared," former Palestinian affairs correspondent for The Jerusalem Post Khaled Abu Toameh told The Telegraph.
Reports of Hamas torture, executions have multiplied over recent weeks
Reports of Hamas terrorists dragging civilians out of aid lines, torturing them in basements, or executing them in broad daylight have multiplied over recent weeks, according to the Telegraph.This included masked figures using a long metal pole to smash a blindfolded man's kneecaps, which was published on Hamas-affiliated social media, the report claims, adding that his "agonised screams and pleas for mercy are too visceral to properly describe."
Another video showed a blindfolded man being interrogated for allegedly collaborating with the Palestinian Authority, which is a capital crime under Hamas's rule. It is likely that the man was later executed, The Telegraph added.
Another protest organizer, Mohammed Abu Saeed, who helped arrange protests in Khan Yunis was also killed, the report confirmed.
According to witnesses cited by the Telegraph, Abu Saeed was shot "so many times in the feet that one had to be amputated," adding that Hamas gunmen allegedly opened fire on his funeral procession, killing an unspecified number of his family members.
Hamas has been attempting to entrap Gazan civilians into saying incriminating statements by approaching them with fake social media accounts, an activist who refused to be named told the Telegraph.
Jerusalem Post Staff
Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-859400
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