Leading member of Daesh-linked gang neutralized in Gaza: Report
Gaza’s security forces have reportedly neutralized a leading member of a gang backed by the Israeli regime and associated with the Daesh (ISIS) terrorist group, which has been responsible for contributing to Tel Aviv’s genocide in the coastal sliver.
An unnamed security source speaking to Quds News Network on Monday identified the targeted individual as “A.T.,” whom the coastal sliver’s Resistance Security Apparatus successfully confronted as part of “a precise security ambush.”
A.T. would recruit militants for the gang run by Yasser Abu Shabab, the source added.
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The Israeli regime began providing Abu Shabab's clan with weapons and equipment earlier this year amid Tel Aviv’s war of genocide on Gaza, which had begun in October 2023.
The support further enabled the gang to wage deadly violence across Gaza, especially in the southern city of Rafah.
In June, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, himself, admitted that the regime had been arming and supporting the Daesh-associated gang to "counter the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas."
Prior to his headship of the gang, Abu Shabab had spent time in prison in Gaza. He began running the gang in 2024, prompting the elders and leaders of the prominent Abu Shabab family to distance themselves from his clan.
As part of its atrocities, the gang has been looting direly-needed aid, and killing Palestinians gathering around the so-called aid distribution sites, which were backed by the US and run by Israel.
According to the source speaking to the Quds News Network, the ambush “also resulted in the arrest of several members affiliated with the same network, as part of a broader security campaign aimed at dismantling militias, pursuing outlaws, and reinforcing the stability and safety of the internal front.”
Besides the Abu Shabab clan, the regime has been providing support to several other such outfits, including one affiliated with the Daghmash family that most recently assassinated Saleh al-Ja'frawi, a prominent Palestinian journalist and social media personality.
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The assassination took place even though the regime had agreed to implement the first phase of a ceasefire plan aimed at ending the genocide.
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