Khaberni - The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reported on Sunday from Palestinian sources that dozens of armed individuals belonging to tribal militias opposed to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) began, during the last 48 hours, to voluntarily surrender themselves to the security forces of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The sources indicated that the self-surrender operations accelerated notably since Friday, focusing in the areas of Rafah and Khan Yunis, where the most prominent armed militias which received overt support from the Israeli occupation are active.
This step followed the announcement by Hamas granting a final deadline of 10 days for anyone belonging to these militias to surrender themselves and their weapons. The Ministry of Interior in the Gaza Strip stated last Friday -in a statement to Al Jazeera- that it will work on processing the files of those who will surrender themselves and alleviate the procedures of their trials, noting that the protection umbrella of the occupation for the traitors will not last long.
The ministry emphasized that "the Israeli occupation has not succeeded in affecting the unity of the Palestinian people and their national cohesion, and the terror gangs formed by the occupation to meddle in the internal arena remained isolated without popular or societal support, until they meet their fate by vanishing."
One of the leaders of the tribal union in Gaza stated today, Sunday, in a statement conveyed by the broadcasting corporation, "The tribes are extremely worried about the militias that are funded by Israel, and these militias will disappear no matter how much Israel tries to support them," considering that "the goal of these groups is to expose tunnels and pursue the fighters of the resistance, which is what the occupation failed to do over the course of two full years."
The Israeli Army Radio announced last Wednesday that Yasser Abu Shabab, a leader of the armed militia, was killed by unknown assailants in eastern Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Details surrounding his killing remain unclear, as the news leaked to the Israeli press conflicted on how and where he was killed.
Yasser Abu Shabab, a Palestinian born in 1990 in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, belongs to the Tarabin tribe, and was detained before the 7th of October 2023 on criminal charges, and was released after Israel bombed security agency headquarters.
His name came to prominence after the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades -the military wing of Hamas- targeted a force of "Mistaravim" east of Rafah, on 30th May 2025, revealing that it included a group of agents recruited for the sake of the occupation, directly related to what the resistance described as "Yasser Abu Shabab's gang."
