At a time when the debate that exploded yesterday in Israel after the accusation of former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Tel Aviv was not subjected to providing “criminal militias in the Gaza Strip with weapons”, and the confirmation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an Israeli official, revealing that the government was armed with small Palestinian militias controlling part of the lands south of Gaza, as part of a plan to build local resistance Hamas.
He explained that “the militia commander Yasser Abu Shabab received weapons from the Israeli army found inside Gaza during the war,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
Who is Yasser Abu Shabab?
A Palestinian born December 19, 1993 in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, belongs to the Trabin tribe, and was detained before October 20, 2023 on criminal charges.
Then he was released after Israel bombed the headquarters of the security services, and here his name appeared after targeting the Al -Qassam Brigades when it said that it was a group of “agents recruited in favor of Israel” and they were followed directly to the “Yasser Abu Shabab” gang, east of Rafah.
As for the Abu Shabab family, it comes from the Trabin tribe, one of the major Arab tribes in southern Palestine, and it is concentrated in the Gaza Strip, and it is absolved of it after the accusations, according to the “Palestinian Press Network”.
Yasser Abu Shabab, before Israel closed the crossings, formed a special force in the city of Rafah, which is under the full control of the Israeli forces, and said it was to secure the entry of humanitarian aid.
The Palestinian media also reported that the number of elements of this force ranges between 100 and 300, and they spread in locations that are only dozens of meters from the sites of the Israeli army, and they move their weapons under Israeli monitoring directly east of Rafah, near the Karam Abu Salem crossing on the one hand, and on the other hand, west of Rafah, near the aid distribution point within what is known as the American -Israeli mechanism for the distribution of humanitarian relief.
Family disavowed
The name of Yasser Abu Shabab came in an internal note issued by the United Nations as leading the main party responsible for carrying out systematic looting and on a large scale of humanitarian aid received to the sector, according to the Washington Post.
The newspaper added that the Abu Shabab Group was the beginning of the “Anti -Terrorism Agency”, and then later appeared on May 10, 2025 under the name “Popular Forces”.
It also revealed that Yasser Abu Shabab tried to exploit the name of his tribe to secure a social cover, but he failed after the elders of his tribe announced their innocence from him, then the Abu Shabab family in the Gaza Strip announced on Friday evening, May 30, 2025, its full innocence from him after it was confirmed that he was involved in actions that serve Israel.
The family also issued a statement saying that reliable information revealed the involvement of Yasser Abu Shabab in suspicious practices after his claim to work in securing humanitarian aid, and that it “wasted his blood” (a term before me in the sense that she analyzed his killing), unless his actions retract.
A big confusion in Israel
It is noteworthy that an Israeli official confirmed that the Netanyahu government was armed with small Palestinian militias controlling a part of the lands south of Gaza, as part of a plan to build local resistance Hamas.
He explained that the militia commander Yasser Abu Shabab received weapons from the Israeli army found inside Gaza during the war, “according to the Wall Street Journal.
This came after a great confusion that exploded yesterday in Israel after the accusation of former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Tel Aviv of providing “criminal militias in the Gaza Strip with weapons.”
To appear later Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a video posted on his Instagram page, stressing that Israel supports opposition groups for Hamas in Gaza.
Netanyahu said: “What is wrong with this? It is a good thing … He saves the lives of Israeli soldiers,” Netanyahu said.
While Yair Gallan, the former deputy chief of staff, considered a tweet on his account on the “X” platform that “Netanyahu, who turned billions of dollars to Hamas in cash bags, based on a wrong idea that it will lead to changing its positions, is now promoted to a new dangerous idea: arming the Gaza militia linked to ISIS.”
A video published this week was the Abu Al Shabab group, which calls itself “popular power”, showing armed men with what appears to be M-16 rifles and Kalashnikov as they roam the streets in Gaza.
