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Monday, July 07, 2025

Hamas Says It Has Lost Control over 80% of Gaza

A senior officer in Hamas's security forces has told the BBC the Palestinian armed group has lost about 80% of its control over the Gaza Strip and that armed clans are filling the void. The lieutenant colonel said Hamas's command and control system had collapsed due to months of Israeli strikes that have devastated the group's political, military and security leadership.

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A senior officer in Hamas's security forces has told the BBC the Palestinian armed group has lost about 80% of its control over the Gaza Strip and that six different armed clans are filling the void. https://t.co/39NR8rwueN
" Kamran Bokhari (@KamranBokhari) July 6, 2025

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According to the officer, Hamas attempted to regroup during the 57-day ceasefire with Israel earlier this year, reorganizing its political, military, and security councils.

But since Israel ended the truce in March, it has targeted Hamas's remaining command structures, leaving the group in disarray.

In this vacuum, six armed groups affiliated with powerful local clans have emerged as serious contenders to fill the void, according to the officer.

These groups have access to money, weapons and men, and are active across all of Gaza, but mostly in the south.

One of them is led by Yasser Abu Shabab, a figure who has attracted attention from the Palestinian Authority, which is based in the occupied West Bank and is a rival to Hamas, as well as regional players - particularly after Israel confirmed last month that it was supplying him with weapons.

The officer confirmed that Hamas had placed a large bounty on Abu Shabab's head, fearing he could become a unifying figure for its many enemies.

#1 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-07 09:32 AM

Don't worry.

Israel says all Palestinians are HAMAS including children.

#2 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-07-07 10:24 AM

Don't worry. Israel says all Palestinians are HAMAS including children.
#2 | Posted by Sycophant

And children lack control. Ipso facto, ergo, e pluribus unum.

I'm sure it saddens many pro-Hamasers to see the terrorists who hunted down, raped, and murdered 1,200 civilian men, women, and children receive their comeuppance. A few more years of this and then Israel can take Gaza as reparations.

#3 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-07 10:39 AM

"Hamas says it has lost control over 80% of Gaza"

Why would that matter?
Is Hamas the legitimate governing authority of Gaza or something?

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-07 12:14 PM

Thanks to Western complicity and the hardworking American taxpayer, the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) have created the largest number of child amputees in modern history, as well as an army of orphans. The child amputees join a legion of adult amputees, like the victims on the Palestinian soccer team who the IDF began maiming twenty years ago to destroy any vestige of a nation.

Take that Adolf, Vlad, and Pol Pot! You've got nothing on Bibi when it comes to cruelty!

Link: Middle East Monitor.

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-07 01:08 PM

Wonder what the real percentage is as they are not necessarily truthful, as a whole.

#6 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-07-07 02:58 PM

Lying is an Israeli type thing.

Like Well poisoning,Oh, and Child Murder...

Some Sterotypes have an actual Basis in Lived Experience.

Just Sayin'

#7 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-07-07 03:37 PM

Wonder what the real percentage is as they are not necessarily truthful, as a whole.
#6 | Posted by MSgt

But they pinky-promised!

#8 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-07 04:22 PM

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

Are you sad? It sounds like you're sad.

#9 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-07 04:37 PM

How do you lose control over rubble and dead bodies?

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-07 04:49 PM

How do you lose control over rubble and dead bodies?
#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

Incompetence and a fondness for child brides.

#11 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-07 05:06 PM

Isael can't beat them fighting Toe to Toe.

So they Bomb hungry refugees and hospital patients.

Makes em'..Feel Big,..to kill Children.

Any Person there is a Target.

Pigs.

#12 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-07-07 05:10 PM

#10: How do you lose control over rubble and dead bodies?

Easy! Look how easily this young Palestinian lost control of his arms thanks to the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) and American munitions and funds:

And the walking excrescence again despoiled American soil by visiting Dummkopf Trumpf in the White House today. Instead of ICE officers arresting him at the airport or US Marshals executing a probable cause arrest warrant signed by a USDJ for war crimes, Benjamin Netanyahu saunters about insouciantly in our Nation's capital like Holly Golightly without a care in the world.

#13 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-07 05:16 PM

Benjamin Netanyahu saunters about insouciantly in our Nation's capital like Holly Golightly without a care in the world.
#13 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

Too many big words and dated references. Hamas needs to contemporize their propaganda classes. Maybe something involving Bad Bunny.

#14 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-07 05:21 PM

---- "Right Off" Genocide Boy.

Scum of the Retort.

Glib and Sarcastic Voice of Tribal Hatred and Bloodlust.

DISGUSTING.

#15 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-07-07 05:47 PM

Benjamin Netanyahu saunters about insouciantly in our Nation's capital like Holly Golightly without a care in the world.
#13 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS
Too many big words and dated references. Hamas needs to contemporize their propaganda classes. Maybe something involving Bad Bunny.
#14 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-07 05:21 PM

YOU need the "DEATH TO THE IDF" concert experience.

#16 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-07-07 05:56 PM

#16 | Posted by redlightrobot

Does it have a good beat? Can I dance to it?

#17 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-07 06:02 PM

Who or what is a "Censored?" There are Hamas fighters on drudge.com? Do they write or speak English? What kind of lunatic is this 'Censored?' Good thing for *Killfile.*

#18 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-07 06:13 PM

"Hamas fighters"
#18 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

Yes, "fighters." In the same way that the guys who crashed into the World Trade Center on 9/11 were "fighters." Fighting against letting innocent civilians draw breath.

#19 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-07 06:25 PM

#16 | Posted by redlightrobot
Does it have a good beat? Can I dance to it?
#17 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-07 06:02 PM

Commence beating.

#20 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-07-07 06:37 PM

Seeing His Orange Highness and the Israeli PM (Post-Menstrual) in the Gold House (formerly the White House)... is like watching reruns of The Godfather.

These people are ALL Gov Approved Gangsters, and if the Hamas Rep was still alive enough to be there, there would be 3 cheap gangsters in the room. Representing, of course, the moneyed interests that back them.

No good guys; once people have crossed certain lines, they are all werking for Evil, and should be treated that way.

#21 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-07 06:47 PM

#20

Good beat! I never watched that show, but I did like Ride with Norman Reedus which is supposedly getting a new season this year.

#22 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-07 06:53 PM

#21: Hi Corky: No good guys; once people have crossed certain lines, they are all werking[sic] for Evil, and should be treated that way.

Do you also consider Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Father Patrick Ryan, Michael Collins, the Warsaw Ghetto fighters, the Green Mountain Boys, or the Black Panthers evil?

I'm just asking for a Yes or No answer for each of these non-Muslim resistance fighters please.

#23 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-07 07:14 PM

#23

Scalping was totally uncalled for! Though they prolly learned it from white men.

But I digress. I consider most Whataboutisms as the logical fallacies they are, and try to refrain from using them.... I find they are a way of avoiding directly addressing the current questions.

But I'll play along a bit; Hamas is a mostly Fascist group of thugs and criminals who werked (Dethspud homage!) for 3 or 4 billionaire Oligarchs that live in palaces in Qatar, making their money by charging the poor people of Palestine to move goods in the tunnels to and from Egypt.

Raking in billions from that and other scams while at the same time refusing to ever clean the water that the people of Gaze died from daily, men, women, and children.

And bringing a very unsurprising and totally expected living ---- down on the people of Gaza, only some of which actually supported Hamas.

So, no, I don't see the other groups you mention as being the same. At all. Respectfully.

#24 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-07 07:28 PM

"Fighting against letting innocent civilians draw breath."

Same fight Irgun brought to the Levant a century ago.

#25 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-07 07:40 PM

#24. Thank you.

#26 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-07 07:40 PM

#27 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-07 07:44 PM

#24

"You're velcome... I v'ant to drink your blood!"

#28 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-07 07:45 PM

You're velcome... I v'ant to drink your blood!"

Posted by Corky at 2025-07-07 07:45 PM | Reply

You're too old to be a sexy vampire. Just sayin

#29 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-07-07 07:51 PM

socialistproject.ca

#30 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-07 07:55 PM

#29

I date women 20+ years younger than me. It's all in the eye contact, the deadly good looks... and the neck biting.

#31 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-07 08:01 PM

Amichai Stein
@AmichaiStein1
Bibi presents letter to Trump with Nobel Peace Prize nomination.

#32 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-07 08:40 PM

#32

Sucking up to Donald really isn't noticeably different from beclowning him; apparently both can be done at the same time.

#33 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-07 08:50 PM

#32: "Who would like to hand Dummkopf Trumpf his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo this December?"

"I do! I do!" "No, no, pick me!" "No, I want to!" "By Allah, pick me or I will kick you with my one good leg the Israelis left me!"

#34 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-07 08:54 PM

Bono is also nominating the------------- for the USFL hall of fame.

#35 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-07 09:06 PM

*Bibi*

#36 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-07 09:07 PM

Bibi and King Donnie are divvying up Gaza; where to put their palaces, whence the Gaza Trump Hotel and Casino.

Also, there's a 3rd Temple with a Building Permit done that needs a Contractor.

#37 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-07 10:45 PM

@#4 ... Why would that matter? ...

Great question.

And one that the answer to which may only be determined at a future date.

Meanwhile, imo, the Middle East is going to continue to be te Middle East.

As it has been for centuries.

#38 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-08 12:39 AM

I just came here for the comments, they did not disappoint.

#39 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-07-08 01:16 AM

@#39 ... I just came here for the comments, they did not disappoint. ...

What was your current expecting, and what did it see?

And, please explain the difference your current alias apparently saw between the two.

thx.

#40 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-08 01:19 AM

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