In the latest developments, medical sources said that the young man, Salem Rouhi Al-Sous (33 years old), was killed as a result of an Israeli bomb explosion in the town of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip.
Earlier, sources reported that the young man Nabil Hassan Al-Sous (18 years old) was injured by an Israeli bomb explosion in the same area.
According to eyewitnesses, an Israeli patrol fired a bomb at the two young men, Al-Sous, while they were near the Sakhnin school in Al-Atatra, northwest of the town of Beit Lahia, an area from which the occupation army had previously withdrawn under the agreement.
In a separate incident in the central Gaza Strip, medical sources said that 20-year-old Naseem Abu Al-Ajeen was killed by Israeli gunfire east of Deir al-Balah.
Eyewitnesses reported that the shooting took place in the Abu al-Ajeen area, east of Deir al-Balah, from which the army had previously withdrawn under a ceasefire agreement.
Since the agreement came into effect, the Israeli occupation army has committed hundreds of violations, resulting in the martyrdom of 576 Palestinians and the injury of 1,543 others.
“A strange paradox”
In this context, Hamas affirmed on Sunday that resistance is "a right of peoples under occupation and part of international law and divine laws," and considered the disarmament of Palestinians a "strange paradox" amid the legitimization of weapons held by militias cooperating with Israel in Gaza.
This came in a speech by the head of Hamas abroad, Khaled Meshaal, during his participation in the 17th Al Jazeera Forum, held in the Qatari capital, Doha, entitled "The Palestinian Cause and Regional Balances," which lasts for three days.
Mashaal said: “The philosophy of resistance is based on the fact that as long as there is occupation, there will be resistance. It is a right of peoples under occupation, and it is part of international law and divine laws. Resistance is part of the memory of nations that are proud of it.”
He continued: “There is a strange paradox, when there is a bold and brazen attempt to disarm the Palestinian people, who use their weapons to defend themselves, while the weapons of mercenary militias like Abu Shabab and his ilk are legitimized. These militias are intended to create chaos to fill a void, and they think that the Palestinian people and the resistance forces will leave it.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged last June that he had armed militias in Gaza to use as a force against Hamas.
Meanwhile, the Hebrew newspaper Maariv revealed in the same month that the Abu Shabab militia, which receives Israeli support in the form of weapons, are “criminals who are active in smuggling and selling drugs and property crimes.”
On December 5, the Yasser Abu Shabab-Popular Forces group said via its Facebook account that Abu Shabab was killed by a gunshot wound, and claimed that "this injury occurred while he was in the field trying to resolve the dispute between the sons of the Abu Suneima family."
In addition, talk of disarming the resistance comes in the context of what was stipulated in the second phase of the ceasefire agreement, which Washington announced it had begun in mid-January.
This agreement, which is based on US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza, came into effect on October 10.
The agreement ended a war of extermination that Israel began on October 8, 2023,and which lasted for two years, leaving more than 72,000 Palestinian martyrs and more than 171,000 wounded, most of them children and women, and massive destruction that affected 90 percent of the civilian infrastructure, with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.
