FIRST ON FOX: While a senior Hamas official defended the group’s crackdown on Palestinians in Gaza in an interview with Reuters on Friday, a Gaza lawyer in hiding from the terrorists warned that the killings of the group’s critics are continuing.
In an exclusive interview from Gaza, Moumen Al-Natour, a lawyer, former Hamas political prisoner and president of the Palestinian Youth for Development, said Hamas reemerged from underground tunnels after the ceasefire. “After the fire stopped, Hamas fighters came out of the tunnels and killed families who opposed them,” he said. “They are sending out a signal that they are back – by terrorizing people.”
Defending the executions, Hamas terrorist official Mohammed Nazzal told Reuters on Friday that there were always “exceptional measures” during the war and that those executed were criminals guilty of murder.
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On October 13, 2025, a group of Hamas gunmen were captured in Deir-el Balah in central Gaza, while twenty living Israeli hostages were released. (Photos by TPS-IL)
On Thursday, President Donald Trump warned against Truth Social after images circulated online showing Hamas fighters executing Palestinians in Gaza City’s central square. “If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the agreement, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them,” he wrote.
According to Reuters, at least 33 people have been executed by Hamas in recent days in what officials described as a campaign to “show strength” after the ceasefire. Israeli sources say most of the dead belonged to families accused of collaborating with Israel or supporting rival militias.
Al-Natour, the co-founder of the ‘We Want To Live Movement’, said several local militias were still opposing the group across Gaza. In Rafah, Abu Shabab’s clan has drawn attention for recruiting fighters and resisting Hamas control. In Gaza City, the Doghmush clan has clashed repeatedly with Hamas terrorists. In Khan Younis, the Mujaida clan has also been involved in armed clashes.
Some members affiliated with the Hellis network in Gaza City operate in neighborhoods under tension with Hamas. These factions do not hold stable territory, but their sporadic resistance – from raids to armed standoffs – signals the first cracks in Hamas’s grip.
In this still from a verified social media video, confirmed to Reuters by a Hamas source, seven men are forced to their knees and shot from behind by Hamas terrorists during public executions in Gaza on October 14, 2025. (Reuters)
“These militias come from the population,” Al-Natour said. “They need recognition and coordination to form a political umbrella – a transitional body to govern these areas and organize their security.”
He said he and others are trying to operate within what he called Trump’s peace framework, creating safe zones in Gaza where civilians not affiliated with Hamas can access food, aid and protection. “We can build a governing body in these zones,” he said. “But those of us who speak out are being hunted. The people Hamas is killing now are just like me: Palestinians who dared to speak out.”
His organization released a video on X featuring an interview with a Gazan who described how Hamas killed a five-year-old child as part of its campaign against opponents.
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Braude described the reality of Gaza as divided. Reconstruction, he explained, could begin in the areas behind the yellow line – territory now under Israeli control – while fighting continues elsewhere. “This is the scenario proposed in the 20-point plan,” he said. “Gazans opposed to Hamas, including those who have taken up arms in that struggle, can help form enclaves of self-governance that evolve into a transitional authority with international support.”
He predicted that a coalition of anti-Hamas militias, backed by air cover from Israel and possibly private contractors, will carry out the remaining ground fighting. “There is no conceptual return to the pre-October 7 approach,” he added.
A military parade of the terrorist organization Hamas before the transfer of four Israeli female hostages to the Red Cross on January 25, 2025. (TPS-IL)
Michael Milshtein, head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at Tel Aviv University and a former IDF intelligence officer, said Hamas has seized the clans’ weapons and money, much of which comes from Israel, drawing parallels with Hezbollah’s takeover of southern Lebanon in 2000. “This puts Israel in a dilemma,” he warned. “If the Israeli army If we end up protecting these clans, we risk another war with Hamas. If we abandon them, we may have to absorb them later, like the allies we evacuated from Lebanon.”
He called the initiative “a tragic example of acting without understanding the reality of Gaza.”
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Trump’s team has viewed the Gaza ceasefire as the foundation for lasting peace. But with executions, clan wars and new militias on the rise, officials and residents alike say the post-war phase could be a test of whether peace can last — or whether Gaza enters yet another cycle of terror and revenge.
Reuters contributed to this report.
