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2025 Hamas executions
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The 2025 Hamas executions were a wave of public, extrajudicial killings conducted by Hamas in the Gaza strip between September and October 2025. The executions were documented both by video footage on social media and international reports of the events, showing armed men shooting kneeling men in the back of their heads. These events took place before and after the Gaza peace plan.
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Background
Just before and following the end of the Gaza war and the implementation of the Gaza peace plan, in October 2025, Hamas began a wave of executions throughout the Gaza strip.[1] It was part of an attempt by Hamas to maintain authority within the Gaza strip.[2] The Guardian wrote that these incidents raised concerns regarding Hamas' disarmament ("a key though ill-defined provision of..." the peace plan), though Donald Trump suggested that the group was compliant with the deal.[3]
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2025 executions
The first execution took place on 22 September 2025, when Hamas executed 3 men, who were suspected of cooperating with Israel. They were made to kneel while blindfolded and shot in public, as seen on videos published online.[4] On the 14th–15th October, more videos were published that showed Hamas members forcing men to kneel and then shooting them from close range.[5][6][3]
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The exact number of executions is still unclear. As of mid October 2025, multiple sources claim a total of 33 men have been killed.[7][8][9]
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Humanitarian organizations spoke out against the executions and called for accountability. The Palestinian Authority strongly condemned Hamas' actions.[10][11] President Mahmoud Abbas labeled the killings a "crime against the Palestinian people."[12] The Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, a Palestinian NGO, called the incidents "extrajudicial execution[s] of citizens".[12][13] United States President Donald Trump warned that if Hamas continued to kill people in Gaza, "we will have no choice but to go in and kill them," despite initially being indifferent to what he justified as Hamas having "taken out a couple of gangs that were very bad."[14]
Moumen Al-Natour is a Palestinian lawyer, former Hamas political prisoner, and president of Palestinian Youth for Development, and stated these measures are Hamas's way to regain control over the Gaza strip.[15] He was quoted saying "They are sending a signal that they are back — by terrorizing people."[15][16] In an exclusive interview to Reuters on 17, October 2025, Hamas official, Mohammed Nazzal, defended the executions claiming that there are "exceptional measures", and those who were executed were criminals guilty of killing.[17][18][19]
Joseph Braude, president of the Center for Peace Communications, stated in an interview that Hamas is taking advantage of the ceasefire agreement to reestablish power and control over Gaza. According to Braude these are dark times for Gaza in general, and specifically for those who appose Hamas.[20]
President Donald Trump, as the initial reports came out, didn't pay too much attention to the events. But as executions continued, he expressed his firm stance warning Hamas “If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them,”.[21][22][23]
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