Images show public executions in Gaza City Street

Images have emerged showing the public executions of three men accused of being Israeli collaborators in Gaza City.

BBC VERIFY verified that the location of the executions was a street outside the Shifa hospital in the center of the city, which is in the center of a large Israeli offensive.

Videos circulating Sunday evening showed at least five armed and masked men, three Palestinian men with blindfolded eyes on the ground and a large crowd.

One of the armed men is understood to say: “The death sentence has been decided for all employees”.

There are cheers before the three men were pushed to the ground and pulled several times at the back of the head. The crowd then rents the Hamas armed wing, the Qassam brigades.

A Palestinian Gaza Government Palestinian Security Manager managed by Hamas told Reuters that executions had been carried out by the “Salle des operations joint of the Palestinian Resistance”.

This is a rare example in which a public execution in Gaza has been captured in video. There have been previous reports on Hamas using violence on those who dissipate. In May, groups led by Hamas would have executed four Palestinians to loot aid trucks.

In Sunday images, an armed man distinguishes Yasser Abu Shabab as a “major collaborator” whom they seek to kill.

Abu Shabab is a major figurehead of a clan that would have been armed by the Israeli government. He operated in Rafah, in an area under Israeli military control. The group presented itself as an opposition force in Hamas.

In July, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that Israel armed the clans in Gaza who, according to him, were opposed to Hamas. However, Yasser Abu Shabab posted online to “categorically reject” that Israel had provided the weapons of his group.

The same month, a Higher Hamas Security Forces officer told the BBC that the Palestinian Armed group had lost a large part of its control over the Gaza Strip and that the armed clans filled the void.

The armed group of Abu Shabab has advertised for recruits on social networks, reported Reuters. The news agency cited residents and sources close to Hamas saying that other groups opposed to Hamas also emerged in some parts of northern Gaza and near Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Israeli troops have continued to operate in the city of Gaza. The Israeli army said that the troops had “dismantled military infrastructure used by Hamas” and killed a Hamas cell that attacked Israeli soldiers, injuring an officer.

He said his objectives were to release the hostages still held by Hamas and defeat up to 3,000 fighters in what he described as the group’s “main bastion”.

However, the offensive of the largest urban area in Gaza, where a million people lived and a famine was confirmed last month, carried out a generalized international conviction.

Last week, a spokesperson for the United Nations humanitarian office said that she had seen a constant flow of Palestinians heading south during a recent visit to the city, but hundreds of thousands stayed in the city. She described the situation in the city as “cataclysmic”.

The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the attack by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, during which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

At least 65,344 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the Ministry of Health of the Territory.