Abu Shabab collaborated with the Israeli occupation army during its two years of committing genocide crimes in Gaza, including killing, starvation, and destruction.
The Interior Ministry said that "the killing of Abu Shabab represents an inevitable fate for anyone who gets involved with the occupation," calling on "all those involved in criminal groups linked to the occupation to immediately surrender themselves to the security services in order to deal with their cases according to the law, as this would alleviate the trial procedures."
She praised the stances of the families, tribes, and clans that disowned Yasser Abu Shabab, considering that the Israeli occupation formed those groups to carry out its "criminal plans against our people."
On Thursday evening, the Tarabin tribe in the Gaza Strip confirmed the killing of Abu Shabab, declaring that "his blood has turned a page of shame." A statement released by the tribe, to which Abu Shabab belonged, asserted that his death "marked the end of a dark chapter that does not reflect the tribe's history or its positions," adding that he "betrayed his family's oath and became involved with the occupation."
The Interior Ministry in Gaza said: "The Israeli occupation has failed to harm the unity of our people and their national cohesion, or to create a rift in its social structure," adding that "the terrorist gangs that the occupation formed to tamper with the internal arena remained isolated without popular or societal support, until they met their fate of disappearing."
The Yasser Abu Shabab – Popular Forces group confirmed via its Facebook page the death of its leader, whom it described as the "founder of the Popular Forces in the Gaza Strip." It claimed he was "killed by a gunshot wound while in the field attempting to resolve a dispute between members of the Abu Seneima family."
Last July, Palestinian factions in Gaza announced, in a statement issued by their joint operations room, that Abu Shabab was “formed by the enemy army and its political leadership acknowledged arming and operating him in service of it and in an attempt to protect its soldiers.”
She stressed that this group is "rogue and treacherous," and "a tool in the hands of the usurping occupier, exploiting the presence of the occupation forces, armed with their weapons and under their protection."
Earlier, the European Council on Foreign Relations (a research center) described Abu Shabab as the leader of a "criminal gang operating in the Rafah area (southern Gaza Strip), widely accused of looting aid trucks."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, also admitted on June 5 to arming militias in Gaza, allegedly to use them as force against Hamas.
With American support, Israel launched a war of extermination in Gaza on October 8, 2023, leaving more than 70,000 martyrs and more than 171,000 wounded Palestinians, most of them children and women.
A ceasefire agreement that came into effect on October 10 was supposed to end the war, but Israel violates it daily, resulting in the death and injury of hundreds of Palestinians.
