Hamas Disarms for Cameras, Kills for Power |
The latest United Nations report on Gaza exposes the fraud at the center of every negotiation with Hamas. The terrorist group tells diplomats it may disarm while its own enforcers execute, maim, and beat Palestinians to preserve power. This is not a contradiction. It is Hamas’s operating system.
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights documented 249 cases of extrajudicial punishment in Gaza between August 2024 and January 2026. Those cases included 108 deaths. Nearly one-fourth involved Hamas-affiliated forces; these were Hamas operatives and police units, the same coercive infrastructure that Western diplomats now pretend can be separated from the terrorist group’s rockets, tunnels, and command structure.
The punishments targeted alleged collaborators with Israel, aid looters, thieves, drug offenders, political rivals, anti-Hamas activists, and members of Israel-backed clans that appeared where Hamas’s rule weakened. That list matters. Hamas was not merely settling scores. It was eliminating the possibility of a postwar Palestinian alternative. Every rival clan, every independent activist, every........