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Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Hamas: Militia leader Abu Shabab must surrender or face trial for treason, insurrection
The ultimatum stated that Abu Shabab is accused of "treason, collaborating with hostile entities, forming an armed gang, and insurrection." Hamas's Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday that a court has issued a 10-day ultimatum to Yasser Abu Shabab, the leader of a Gazan militia, to surrender or face trial. Abu Shabab is the leader of a well-armed Bedouin clan defying Hamas's control of the Palestinian enclave. The ministry's statement said the decision was taken by what it called a 'Revolutionary Court.' Abu Shabab, who does not recognize the authority of Hamas and accuses them of hurting the interests of Gazans, has 10 days to surrender, it said. The ultimatum stated that Abu Shabab is accused of 'treason, collaborating with hostile entities, forming an armed gang, and insurrection.' Additionally, residents of the Gaza Strip were asked to provide information on his whereabouts and warned that anyone withholding such information would be considered as harboring a fugitive who failed to appear in court. The court urged Palestinians to inform Hamas security officials about the whereabouts of Abu Shabab, who has so far remained beyond their reach in the Rafah area of southern Gaza held by the IDF. There was no immediate response from his group to the surrender order. Hamas, which accuses Abu Shabab of looting UN aid trucks and alleges that he is backed by Israel, has sent some of its top fighters to kill him, two Hamas sources and two other sources familiar with the situation told Reuters last month. Abu Shabab's group told Reuters at the time that it is a popular force protecting humanitarian aid from looting by escorting aid trucks, and it denied getting support from Israel or contacts with the Israeli army. It accused Hamas of violence and muzzling dissent. Israel has said it has backed some of Gaza's clans against Hamas but has not said which. Abu Shabab previously denied to Army Radio that his militia had received any backing from Israel, though it is unclear how Hamas would treat his interview with an Israeli media outlet, given the terror group's restrictive laws against communicating with Israelis. He asserted that the militia's weapons were collected from local people. Yisrael Beytenu chairmanAvigdor Liberman previously claimed that Israel was arming opposing militia groups and crime families, a claim denied by the Prime Minister's Office.
The National
06-07-2025
- Politics
- The National
Anti-Hamas gang leader Abu Shabab admits joining forces with Israeli army in Gaza
The leader of a well-armed Bedouin clan defying Hamas's control of the Gaza Strip has confirmed it is co-ordinating with the Israeli army in Rafah. Yasser Abu Shabab gave an interview to the Israeli public broadcaster's Arabic-language radio station Makan, in which he said the objective of his Popular Forces group is to face up to "injustice and corruption". He said of his group: "As long as the goal is support and assistance [from the Israeli military] and nothing more, when we go on a mission we inform them – nothing beyond that – and we carry out the military operations. "There will be sacrifices and blood ... we are entering this project to free the people from their [Hamas's] injustice. We will not back down on this, no matter what the blood is." The Popular Forces operates in the east of the southern Gaza city of Rafah in an area controlled by Israeli forces, as they battle Hamas in the territory. Asked about the prospect of a ceasefire, Mr Abu Shabab said his group would continue their operations against Hamas even if a truce were reached. "If a truce happens, we will proceed with our work, no matter the cost or blood," he said. "We do not oblige ourselves to a truce ... this is their [Hamas] affair with the Israeli army." The Hamas -run Interior Ministry in Gaza has ordered Mr Abu Shabab to surrender and face trial, accusing him of treason. A ministry statement said the decision was taken by what it called a "Revolutionary Court". It gave Mr Abu Shabab 10 days to surrender and urged Palestinians to inform Hamas security officials of his whereabouts. The Abu Shabab group described the Hamas court's order as a "sitcom that doesn't frighten us, nor does it frighten any free man who loves his homeland and its dignity", in a post on the Facebook page that usually carried its announcements. Hamas has accused Mr Abu Shabab and his gang of looting UN aid lorries, with Israel backing. The European Council on Foreign Relations think tank describes Mr Abu Shabab as the leader of a "criminal gang operating in the Rafah area that is widely accused of looting aid trucks". Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has admitted Israel was supporting an armed group in Gaza that opposes the militant Hamas, following comments by a former minister that Israel was supplying a gang with arms. Knesset member and former defence minister Avigdor Lieberman had said the government, at Mr Netanyahu's direction, was "giving weapons to a group of criminals and felons". "What did Lieberman leak?" Mr Netanyahu said at the time. "That on the advice of security officials, we activated clans in Gaza that oppose Hamas.
Roya News
02-07-2025
- Politics
- Roya News
Hamas orders Gaza clan leader 'Yasser Abu Shabab' to surrender, accuses him of treason
Gaza's Revolutionary Court has issued a 10-day deadline for a man accused of serious national security offenses to turn himself in, warning that failure to do so will result in a trial in absentia. The court identified the suspect as Yasser Jihad Mansour Abu Shabab, born February 27, 1990, and residing in Rafah. In a formal statement released Wednesday, the court announced that Abu Shabab faces the following charges: Treason and collaboration with hostile entities, in violation of Article 131 Forming an armed gang, under Article 176 Armed insurrection, as per Article 168 The ruling stated that the accused has until July 12, 2025, to surrender to the competent authorities for prosecution. If he fails to comply, he will be declared a fugitive and tried in absentia, the court stated. Authorities also warned that anyone found harboring or concealing Abu Shabab would be considered complicit in aiding a fugitive and subject to legal consequences. Shortly after the court's announcement, a statement was released by Abu Shabab's supporters in a post on the Facebook page that usually carried the group's announcements, denouncing the charges as politically motivated and rejecting the authority of Hamas' judiciary. 'Brother Yasser Abu Shabab is safe and will return soon with major national projects aimed at justice, dignity, and service to our people,' the statement said. It dismissed the court as a 'theatrical farce issuing orders from hideouts in hospitals and schools,' accusing Hamas of using the judiciary to suppress dissent. 'These illegitimate courts are tools of repression with no popular legitimacy,' the statement continued. 'They should prosecute those responsible for dragging our people into the catastrophe of October 7, leading to famine and the attempted erasure of our cause.' The message also called on Hamas to hold its own members accountable for corruption and abuses since its 2007 takeover of Gaza, pointing to exploitative financial practices, mismanagement of aid, and sheltering of armed gangs. Hamas has not responded publicly to the statement. Broader controversy: Alleged coordination with 'Israel' The charges come amid heightened controversy following a rare public admission by 'Israeli' Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who previously claimed that 'Israel' has 'activated' certain Palestinian clans in Gaza to counter Hamas. While Netanyahu offered few details, an 'Israeli' official later confirmed the move was directed at supporting the Popular Forces, the very group led by Abu Shabab. According to reports, the Popular Forces have been active in 'Israeli'-controlled zones of Rafah, helping secure food convoys run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a body tied to the ongoing humanitarian aid efforts in southern Gaza. However, the group has also been accused by aid workers and Palestinian officials of attacking and looting those very shipments. Nahed Sheheiber, head of Gaza's private transport union, previously accused Abu Shabab's supporters of repeated attacks on aid trucks. 'The ones who looted aid are now the ones protecting it,' he said. As a response to these allegations, the Abu Shabab family itself has previously disavowed Yasser Abu Shabab, saying he and his followers no longer represent them and denouncing his alleged ties with the 'Israeli' military.
Time Magazine
25-06-2025
- Politics
- Time Magazine
Who Died When Israel Bombed Evin Prison?
When I saw the images of Evin Prison's front gate torn to shreds by an Israeli airstrike, my eyes filled with tears. I spent eight years behind that gate as a hostage of the Islamic Republic—held in a place where brutality is policy and hope is contraband. But my tears were not tears of joy. I wasn't reveling in the thought that some of those responsible for tossing me—and later my ailing father—into solitary confinement were finally getting what they deserved. My heart was too tormented by imagining the horror that so many innocent prisoners—some of whom I spent years locked up with—and their families must be experiencing now. This was not just a strike on a symbol of repression. Israel didn't merely blow open a prison gate. Its bombs—dropped in the middle of working hours—severely damaged the adjoining Shahid Moghaddas judicial complex, where prisoners are dragged before malevolent magistrates and fed into the machinery of the Revolutionary Court. I've been in those rooms—shackled, humiliated—facing men who called themselves judges but acted like junior members of the intelligence services, signing whatever orders they were handed. One I called 'Jenayatkar' behind his back—a play on his name that means 'criminal' in Farsi. The nickname stuck. I remember him sneering at me once while I was being held incommunicado, saying, 'Your mom is downstairs in the waiting room. She comes every single day, pleading for a visit,' with a grin I wished I could smack off his More: Why Iranians Beaten and Imprisoned by the Regime Condemn Foreign Interference But that center of injustice wasn't filled only with villains. The bombs did not distinguish between evil magistrates and political prisoners, or the 18- to 20-year-old conscripts tasked with escorting them. Were human rights lawyers, who braved those halls to defend the defenseless, among the casualties? How many janitors and clerks—who commute for hours from Tehran's poorest suburbs—are now dead or injured? And what of the families gathered in the waiting area, as my own mother once did, pleading for visits, for medicine deliveries, or simply for confirmation that their loved ones were even being held inside Evin at all? Israel's bombs also hit the infirmary, where I and countless others once lined up to see the doctor. I remember the desperation there—but also the acts of quiet courage. What has become of the young female physician I used to address as 'Superhero,' who once stormed into the women's ward during the pandemic and forced a reluctant warden to send a political prisoner with acute COVID-19 to a hospital? She saved that woman's life. I recall many other stories of the infirmary staff helping prisoners in ways I cannot divulge. Their quiet, thankless compassion helped us endure and survive. Now that infirmary lies in ruins. Ward 4, where many political prisoners and foreign or dual-national hostages are held, was also damaged—including the library, our main refuge, where I spent most of my days. So was the women's ward. Immediately after the strike, political prisoners—men and women—were suddenly rounded up, placed on buses, and transported to an undisclosed location without any of their belongings. Terrified families are now frantically calling one another, desperately seeking news and praying their loved ones are alive—and that the regime won't take out its fury on them. The Evin Prison complex houses multiple detention centers. The most harrowing—controlled by the Ministry of Intelligence and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps—were reportedly damaged as well. I spent over two years in one of them. We don't know if any of the interrogators who beat me were harmed—just as we don't know whether any political prisoners were buried beneath the rubble of their solitary cells or the torture chambers where they were blindfolded and More: Meet the Jailed Husband of Iran's Most Prominent Women's Right Defender And what about the visitation center, also damaged in the bombing? How many prisoners, families, and lawyers were harmed there? What became of the kind monitor who used to let my mom stay as long as she liked—quietly ignoring the 20-minute limit and saying this small gesture was all he could offer a family that had been through so much injustice? This was no surgical strike on senior regime officials or military commanders in their ill-gotten penthouses. Those bombs certainly don't inspire the Iranian people to rise up and topple the Islamic Republic. Quite the opposite. A former political prisoner reports that families of prisoners, guards, and administrators have all gathered outside the prison—helplessly seeking news of their loved ones and shedding tears together. Israel's bombing of Evin lays bare what happens when two reprehensible systems collide: one that cages the innocent, and another that claims to liberate them with bombs. We can only hope the recent fragile ceasefire between Iran, Israel, and the United States holds—and that this madness finally ends. But even if it does, we all know what will follow. The Ayatollahs, having failed to stop the bombs from Israel or the U.S., will turn their vengeance inward. They will try to reassert control in the only way they know how: through brute force. Thousands will be rounded up, tortured, and executed as the regime spreads fear to survive. Already-persecuted communities—like the Baha'is—will likely be among the first to suffer. As always, the most innocent will pay the highest price.
NDTV
11-06-2025
- Politics
- NDTV
Iran Executes Man Convicted Of Killing 7 People During Protests In 2022
Iran executed a man on Wednesday after convicting him of killing seven people, including a 10-year-old boy, during nationwide protests in 2022, the judiciary said. Abbas Kurkuri was sentenced to death over a shooting in the city of Izeh during a protest sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurd detained for an alleged breach of Iran's strict dress code for women. The judgement handed down by the Revolutionary Court in Ahvaz, capital of the southwestern province of Khuzestan, was upheld by the Supreme Court and the sentence was carried out by hanging, the judiciary's Mizan Online news website said. The court convicted Kurkuri of the capital offences of "corruption on earth" and "moharebeh" -- waging war against God. It found him guilty of "brandishing a weapon with intent to kill and terrorise the public", and "committing crimes by firing a military weapon and forming and joining a rebel group". He was accused of opening fire with a military weapon in Izeh in an attack that left seven people dead, including 10-year-old Kian Pirfalak. Officials described the shooting as a "terrorist attack". At trial, Kurkuri confessed to the charges and said he had been "under the influence of social media", Mizan said. The report described him as a "notorious offender" with a record of "disrupting public order through shootings, armed assault, destruction of property, and trafficking in drugs and alcohol". Hundreds of people were killed during the 2022 protests, including members of the security forces. Thousands more were arrested. Iran has since tried and executed several people detained during the protests. Kurkuri's execution comes a day after Iran hanged nine men convicted of plotting to carry out attacks in 2018 on behalf of the Islamic State group. Iran is the world's second most prolific executioner after China, according to human rights groups including Amnesty International.
