Footage has emerged showing three men accused of collaborating with Israel being executed publicly on a street in central Gaza City.
BBC Verify confirmed the location as a road outside Shifa hospital, an area currently at the heart of a major Israeli ground offensive.
Videos circulating on Sunday evening show at least five masked and armed men, three blindfolded Palestinians kneeling on the ground, and a large crowd of onlookers.
One of the masked men is heard saying: "The death sentence has been decided for all collaborators."
Moments later, the men are forced to the ground and shot several times in the back of the head, prompting cheers from the crowd praising Hamas's armed wing, the Qassam Brigades.
A Palestinian security official working for the Hamas-run Gaza government told Reuters that the executions were carried out by the "Joint Operations Room of the Palestinian resistance."
Public executions captured on video in Gaza are rare, though Hamas has previously used violence against dissenters.
In May, reports indicated that four Palestinians were executed for looting aid trucks.
In the recent footage, one armed man specifically identifies Yasser Abu Shabab as a "major collaborator" targeted for execution. Abu Shabab leads a clan reportedly armed by Israel and active in Rafah, an area under Israeli military control, presenting itself as an opposition to Hamas.
In July, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that Israel had armed clans opposed to Hamas, but Abu Shabab later posted online denying that his group had received weapons from Israel.
That same month, a senior Hamas security officer told the BBC that the group had lost significant control over Gaza, with armed clans filling the resulting power vacuum.
Reuters reports that Abu Shabab’s group has recruited members via social media. Residents and sources close to Hamas also indicated that other anti-Hamas groups have emerged in northern Gaza and near Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces continue operations in Gaza City.
The military said its troops had "dismantled military infrastructure used by Hamas" and killed a Hamas cell that attacked Israeli soldiers, injuring an officer. Israel’s stated goals include freeing hostages held by Hamas and defeating up to 3,000 fighters in what it calls Hamas’s "main stronghold."
The offensive in Gaza, home to around one million residents and facing famine conditions confirmed last month, has drawn broad international criticism.
Last week, a UN humanitarian spokeswoman described the city as "cataclysmic," noting that while thousands were fleeing south, hundreds of thousands remained in Gaza.
The Israeli campaign followed a Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, which killed around 1,200 people and left 251 hostages taken.
Since then, at least 65,344 people have died in Israeli strikes, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry.
