This show of force, welcomed by some Palestinians after months of lawlessness, could now threaten the fragile ceasefire, especially as all living hostages from Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack have been released.

The Hamas-run police maintained a high degree of public security after the militants seized power in Gaza 18 years ago while also cracking down on dissent. They largely melted away in recent months as Israeli forces seized large areas of Gaza and targeted Hamas security forces with airstrikes.

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    Ignoring that the IDF killed 6 people yesterday during this “ceasefire” -_-

    Jesus christ why can’t Hamas and the Zionist party just trade for each others leaderships so they can be executed and we can move past these old fucking religious extremists who keep us busy killing each other?

    FFS I hate what religion enables us to do to each other.

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        Dude take a break from the Marxist revolution to recognize there is more than one dynamic in the world.

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        I’m sorry, dude, but this is cope from the religiously indoctrinated.

        Right-wing ideologies and religious participation are intrinsically linked.

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          yes but it’s not “the religion” that’s the problem. “ain’t no war but class war” is not just a cool slogan, it’s practically newtonian fact.

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            Lemmy won’t hear it dude.

            The overwhelming opinion here is that

            rELiGiOn bAD!

            For some reason lots of people here can’t seem to see that class war is the goal, and those in power using religion to achieve that goal.

            Religion itself has nothing to do with it. It’s class war all the way using whatever means necessary to keep the poor in their place.

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            Religion is a control mechanism that was used to police communities before law enforcement was feasible.

            Today, it is still a control mechanism that, instead of being ran by governments, is just unregulated cults available for any well-spoken con man to take advantage of.

            Saying that we would still have genocide without religion is like saying quadruple amputees could technically still rape someone. But we both know it’s way less likely.

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              Capitaism does genocides too…

              More than one thing can be true at the same time lol.

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                It’s their religion that justifies the Zionists exterminting anyone who exists on “their land”

                When has a government consciously made the decision to genocide a group of people because it was finantially a good idea?

                There usually isn’t a reasonable reason to do these things, which is why religion is used, because it lets people accept unreasonable explanations for what happens in the world around them.

                Look, i get it. Religion is important to a lot of people. Mostly because they have been forced from childhood to internalize it, but it isn’t healthy for society.

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                  when has a government

                  cough: the irish potato “famine.”

                  look. religion is bad. people are bad. capitalists are bad.

                  i just tend to think it all boils down to peoples castes/class that really drives this “bad.”

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      Hamas said it would disarm once the occupation end. They accept the two state solution based on pre 67 borders. There is all kind of militant in Palestine there is not only muslims fighting the occupation. From thr palestinian side it was never about religion but liberation from settler colonialism

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    Powerful local families and armed gangs – including some anti-Hamas factions backed by Israel – stepped into the void. Many are accused of hijacking humanitarian aid and selling it for profit, contributing to Gaza’s starvation crisis.

    Nahed Sheheiber, head of Gaza’s private truckers union, said Hamas was acting against gangs that had terrorised people in areas controlled by Israel.

    “Those gangs looted aid and killed people under the protection of the [Israeli] occupation,” he told The Associated Press, saying they operated in so-called red zones where Israel had ordered people to evacuate. The Israeli military did not respond to a request for comment.

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    Residents of the area, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns, said the gang, led by Hussam Doghmush, was known to loot aid convoys and rob abandoned homes in areas controlled by the Israeli military. They said Doghmush was among some two dozen people killed in the clashes with Hamas, including a local journalist and a son of a senior Hamas official based outside Gaza.

    Hamas-linked Telegram channels said Hamas had targeted “collaborators and traitors” working with Israel. The Hamas-run Sahm security force, which says it targets looters and other criminals, shared footage that appeared to show its forces killing eight people execution-style in the streets as people cheered. It said the detainees were gangsters.

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    This seems like Israeli propaganda. Are they allowing impartial journalists into Palestine? Israel killed over 250 journalists.

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    “Could now threaten the ceasefire”

    Lol, yeah sure. This is what will do it im sure. Nothing else at all…

    By the way, for those that actually read the article you’ll notice it’s super interesting the parts that OP quoted there and the parts that he left out.

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    You guys do understand that Israel has been funding ISIS gangs to rape and kill Palestinians? How exactly should the people of Palestine deal with this issue? Ask them politely to leave?

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    Vietcong executed collaborators and most people today don’t deny that they was still a resistance group

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    Israel spent the last 2 years publicly executing hundreds of thousands of civilians. Hamas (legitimate governing organization of Gaza) is finally freed up to deal with the collaborators and criminals who were taking advantage of their already brutalized neighbors.

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    we have absolutely zero concept of what its like to live in a wartorn bombed out, active warzone. we can assume Hamas is awful, but this article paints Palestinians we the same brush. uhm. the civilians in this genocide don’t have the privilege of “options” . this article is for westerners only who get manipulated to believe things. The probably sourced 3 propoganda tiktok videos as “some palestinians”

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      Hamas is awful based on what exactly? It is a government like any government with the extra of being in the largest open prison since they got elected…

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        are you for real, or just ignorant? a “government” that tortures, kills, represses its citizens…

        oh wait, thats us.

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      It’s pure racism. Decades of propaganda has trained people to see violence by Muslims as different from violence from other groups. People here have no issue with Ukraine torturing and executing Russian collaborators, but when Arabs do it they’re seen as violent savages who’ve been hypnotized into ultra-violence by their primitive religion.

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    This whole conflict has been like watching a video from halfway around the world of a child molester mercilessly punch and kick the unconscious body of a second child molester after he hit the first one in the face. And then having a bunch of people ask “which child molester do you support?” who then get really upset and confused when you say neither, that you consider them both to be monsters, and don’t really care if either, or both, of them die.