‘No stopping a civil war against Hamas,’ Gaza militia chief Abu Shabab tells KAN
This added that Abu Shabab refused to work with Israel, but did not cooperate with IDF in the future.
Yasser Abu Shabab, the leader of the Israeli -backed, anti -Hamas group of popular powers, announced on Sunday that the militias of Israeli public broadcaster Kan actively work against Hamas. Gaza StripIt operates especially in the Rafah region.
“No stopping an civil war Hamas“Abu Shabab said in the interview.
Kan told Kan did not belong to any political or organizational ideology. However, Abu Shabab said that he refused to work with Israel in his interview last month to Army radio and confirmed his group’s relationship with Palestinian authority. In this interview, he said he would not exclude cooperation with IDF on issues such as humanitarian aid distribution in the future.
“We tasted the pain and injustice given to us by Hamas and took ourselves to confront this aggression,” Sunday said in a blood interview. “We support any legitimate power to adopt the idea of eliminating injustice and corruption.”
The militia leader also stressed that popular forces receive logistics and financial aid from various sources, but avoiding the naming of certain sources.
The Palestinians seeking help are gathered near the distribution area at Rafa in the Southern Gaza Strip on 27 May 2025 (Credit: Reuters/Hatem Khaled)
‘Next heirs in Gaza’
Abu Shabab claimed that after Hamas left the power, popular forces would later rule the settlement. “Hamas knows and understands it; after popular powers have been crushed and defeated, there will be heirs in Gaza.”
He said there was no dispute between the group and the Palestinian Authority (PA). “There is an administrative coordination for certain goals, but not a military, but PA has nothing to do with the organization of popular powers or providing assistance, any coordination is just administrative.”
Facing an ultimatum
Abu Shabab’s interview with blood came a few days after Hamas announced that he had published a 10 -day ultimatum for the surrender or trial of the Ministry of Interior.
Ultimatum states that Abu Shabab is accused of “betrayal, cooperating with enemy beings, an armed gang and uprising”.
When asked by blood about ultimatum, ” [Hamas] He committed the crime of October 7. It is the reason for the problem of the Palestinian people, the persecution of civilians and the killing of innocent. They should try themselves, not other people. “
Liran Ahaaroni contributed to this report.