| xl-klaudkil said: I wonder, are the public excecutions by hamas part of the genocide? Or will that be the second genocide on its "own" people? |
Were the executions of collaborators in WW2 part of the genocide?
I'm not saying its right, far from it. This falls in the Hiroshima bomb category, not necessary but sending a message, in this case to prevent further clan warfare. It has nothing to do with genocide, but is still a war crime. PoWs are protected under international law.
The 1949 Geneva Conventions mandates humane treatment, adequate housing, food, and medical care. Under the Third Geneva Convention, PoWs must be treated with respect for their honor and person, have a right to communicate with their families, be paid for work done, and be released and repatriated as soon as active hostilities end.
(Now look at how Israel treats all the people they take from Gaza...)
A genocide is:
Article II In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
a. Killing members of the group;
b. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
c. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
d. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
e. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Hamas does not have the intent to destroy Palestinians as a group / ethnicity. So no, field executions of gang members (working for Israel) do not fall under genocide. They're also not out to destroy the clans, they are taking their weapons to restore order.
If you read the article further
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/middleeast/gaza-public-execution-gaza-city-hamas-intl
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CNN previously reported that Hamas-affiliated Telegram channels said the violence started after a son of a senior Hamas military commander was killed.
The Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, a Palestinian NGO, said it received reports that gunmen clashed with armed men from a local family in the Sabra and Tel al-Hawa neighborhoods in Gaza City after the ceasefire came into effect on Friday.
It said that according to the information it gathered, the attackers claimed they were trying to arrest a group of suspects.
“The clashes resulted in casualties among both the family members and the attacking force. After the arrest of several family members, the video showing the execution of several citizens was circulated widely on social media,” the center said, adding that no official statement from local authorities was released about the incident.
Radaa said in a statement on Monday that it was carrying “wide-ranging security operations resulting in the arrest of a large number of collaborators and individuals operating outside the law.”
In the statement, Radaa said it arrested a group of “lawless elements” who fired at security forces in central Gaza, and that it detained a number of people “implicated in cooperating with an armed militia and recruiting collaborators during the war” in southern Gaza.
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The video of the executions was widely shared online, including by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, which said the footage showed why Hamas “must go.”
The video surfaced after US President Donald Trump suggested that he gave an approval to Hamas to police the territory for “a period of time.”
Trump was asked about Hamas reasserting itself in Gaza following the ceasefire he helped to broker between the group and Israel as he was traveling to the Middle East on Monday. “They do want to stop the problems. They’ve been open about it and we gave them approval for a period of time,” Trump said in response.
It's the ugly side of war and why the Geneva conventions are so important as well as upholding international law. The perpetrators of these executions deserve to stand trial for their actions. Yet if it prevents civil war, the peace plan might still have a chance to get to phase 2 (I highly doubt it, the peace plan that is, Hamas is still too powerful for civil war to erupt between the various clans)
But why the focus on Hamas executing a few clan members, and not on the IDF executing thousands of civilians, some by driving over them in tanks (as admitted by IDF soldiers themselves)
