Hamas says it has lost control over 80% of Gaza

Monday, July 07, 2025

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 | Reply

Don't worry.

Israel says all Palestinians are HAMAS including children.

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

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 | Reply

"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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

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

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

How do you lose control over rubble and dead bodies?

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

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

#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 | Reply

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 | Reply

Fuck "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 | Reply

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 | Reply

#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 | Reply

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 | Reply