The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has intensified its control over the devastated cities of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, beginning to hunt down and execute its opponents, LETA reports citing AFP.
Hamas released a video through its official channel showing the execution of eight 'collaborators and criminals' in the street. The victims are blindfolded and kneeling before their deaths.
The video appears to have been filmed on Monday evening. Meanwhile, five days after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian terrorists, clashes continue in various areas of the Gaza Strip between Hamas militants and different armed Palestinian clans.
After the withdrawal of the Israeli army, the so-called 'police' under the control of Hamas's 'government' returned to the streets of the northern Gaza Strip, with militants hiding their faces under black masks.
When buses carrying terrorists released from Israeli prisons arrived in Gaza on Monday in exchange for the release of hostages, the crowd was controlled by militants from Hamas's military wing — the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
Meanwhile, Hamas has begun operations against armed clans and gangs, some of which, according to the terrorists, support Israel.
One resident of Gaza told AFP that fierce fighting lasted for four hours in the eastern part of the city between the recently formed 'Deterrence Forces' of Hamas and the Hille family.
Hamas has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007, when the Islamists forcibly expelled security forces loyal to the Palestinian administration controlled by the secular Fatah faction.
Israel insists that Hamas should play no role in the future governance of the Gaza Strip and that the group must disarm.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Tuesday that the U.S. peace plan clearly calls for the demilitarization and disarmament of Hamas.
'First of all, Hamas must lay down its arms, and secondly, there must be no weapons factories or smuggling of weapons into Gaza. That is demilitarization,' emphasized the Israeli Prime Minister.
The 20-point peace plan of U.S. President Donald Trump provides for amnesty for those members of Hamas who agree to disarm.
'If they do not disarm, we will disarm them,' Trump told reporters on Tuesday at the White House, adding that this would happen quickly and possibly with the use of force.
