In Gaza and in Lebanon’s Ain al-Hilweh camp, crowds handed out sweets and baklav…

In Gaza and in Lebanon’s Ain al-Hilweh camp, crowds handed out sweets and baklava and celebrated in the streets after reports that Yasser Abu Shabab, the militia boss who challenged Hamas’s rule in Rafah, had been killed. Chants on Palestinian channels hailed his death and cursed him to “hell.”

Abu Shabab, a Bedouin leader from the Tarabin tribe, headed the “Popular Forces,” an Israel-backed anti-Hamas militia that operated around Rafah and aid routes. His men were both feared and courted: they fought Hamas and coordinated with Israel, while also being accused by various reports of looting humanitarian convoys and running a criminal-style patronage network.

Israeli defense sources say he died after an internal clash in the Rafah area, not in a direct battle with Hamas, and that he succumbed to his wounds in an Israeli hospital. His own militia claims he was shot while trying to mediate a family dispute, even as Hamas-aligned outlets rush to brand the killing a “revolutionary” success.

The candy-and-fireworks scenes in Gaza and Lebanon over the death of a man whose main crime was opposing Hamas show how violently Iran-backed networks enforce loyalty and punish any hint of cooperation with Israel. For Israel, Abu Shabab’s killing also exposes how fragile and dangerous the entire experiment of arming anti-Hamas clans really is.

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