Yasser Abu Shabab, the leader of the ISIS-aligned, Israel-funded criminal gang named after him, has been killed today in Rafah, southern Gaza, according to local journalists and Israeli media. Who killed him is unclear, but while his group’s fighters have been photographed relaxing with their weapons near Israeli troops.

Some reports claim Shabab was ambushed, while others claim one of his own men shot him.

The gang murdered well-known Palestinian journalist Saleh al-Jafarawi after the so-called ‘ceasefire’ was declared. Before the ceasefire, Israel used the group to attack aid-seekers near the now-disappeared, so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation bases while blaming it on resistance groups in an attempt to cover its deliberate starvation of the surviving Palestinian population in Gaza. Shabab’s own family disowned him as a result and called for him to be killed.

After Shabab was shot, Israeli troops evacuated him to Israel’s Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, but doctors declared him dead on arrival. Crowds of Palestinians reportedly flooded streets in Gaza celebrating his death.

Israeli media described Shabab’s killing as a “bad development for Israel”.

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By Skwawkbox

This post was originally published on Canary.