Report: Sinwar had secret police force to quash dissent in Gaza

Arutz Sheva ^ | 113/5/24

[Eleutheria5]

Yahya Sinwar the leader of the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip, created and oversaw a secret police force that monitored and created files on ordinary Gazan civilians, the New York Times reported.

Documents seized from Gaza indicate that this secret force, which is called the General Security Service, targeted journalists, young people, and others who questioned the Hamas government in Gaza.

Anyone who attended a protest against a Hamas official or any aspect of Hamas's rule, as well as anyone who publically criticized Hamas, was investigated by the General Security Service.

The secret force was used to quash any and all dissent in Gaza, the Times reported. Journalists were often followed, criticism of Hamas was removed from social media, and all efforts were made to suppress anti-Hamas protests.

The General Security Service created files on at least 10,000 people in Gaza from 2016-2023.

The secret force consisted of 856 people and had a monthly budget of $120,000.

One Gaza journalist who was targeted said that he had his phone seized and searched while on his way to a protest. According to the journalist, the officers wrote messages of a flirtatious nature to a female journalist on his phone to plant evidence of immoral behavior against him.

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[Eleutheria5]

Surprise.

[dfwgator]

Not that the thick-headed Pali-loving protesters will care.

[ComputerGuy]

Sounds like the FBI, doesn’t it?

[Eleutheria5]

Now, now, now. You know perfectly well that the G-Men are all straight arrows who never do wrong. They had a TV show and everything./sarc

[monkeyshine]

Like this is some kind of bombshell revelation? The guy is a top leader of death cult theocracy, a murderous psychopathic organization which rules with fear, intimidation, theft, embezzlement, corruption, extortion, public floggings, public executions and public displays of dead corpses of those who oppose their rule. It amazes me that anyone who considers themselves “pro-Palestinian” doesn’t know this, and doesn’t oppose him and his organization.

[silent majority rising]

OF course he did (and does)..His model is Adolph Hitler and other Fascist regimes.

[PGalt]

Yah Yah Sin War on some innocent individuals in Gaza. Those clever TOTALITARIANS of Islam use all stratagems of WAR. It’s hard to disavow or leave that EVIL collective.

[hal ogen]

Typical fascist supported by lovers of fascism.

[PGalt]

http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2007/10/terrifying-brilliance-of-islamic.html?m=1 no

[marktwain]

The relatively small level of this effort shows how wholeheartedly the civilian population was behind Hamas.

I am pretty sure the US government had a proportionally greater effort in the U.S. during WWII.

[Obadiah]

No, his model is the Democrat Party.

[beethovenfan]

I hope the IDF terminates this guy soon.

[Seruzawa]

Modelled after Hoover’s FIB.

[Lurker]

Cue Claude Raines.

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[Eleutheria5]

“The relatively small level of this effort shows how wholeheartedly the civilian population was behind Hamas.”

Not necessarily. Dissent starts with a few brave souls in a totalitarian dictatorship. The rest are cowards, quietly hating their oppressors, but waiting to see how the lone dissenters fare, and when they are killed, ostracized or jailed and forgotten, especially if they are successfully slandered first, they do not make a stand. Same applies to Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, present-day Russia, Communist China, Communist Cuba, Sandinista Nicaragua, present-day Venezuela, Hussein’s Iraq, Islamist Iran, etc. After the dictator is toppled, people come out in the open to bring down their statues, throw stones at their posters, things they never dared to do while the dictators were in power. Now in a mob with their oppressor gone, they suddenly have courage.

[SunkenCiv]

Sinwar's boosters will of course deny that face and try to hurl accusations against Israel.

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