Officials said Israel helped arm and back Yasser Abu Shabab’s Popular Forces, part of a strategy against Hamas, before a local clan killed him this week.

The head of the Tarabin tribe and a member of Gaza Tribal Council, Sheikh Salem al-Sufi, affirmed that his tribe was ...

Sweets distributed in Gaza and in Lebanon after Israel-backed militia leader, who was accused of looting aid, is killed in ...

Hamas was taken by surprise by news of the killing of Yasser Abu Shabab, the self-styled leader of armed groups operating ...

Abu Shabab, the young commander of the Israeli-backed Popular Forces militia, was shot during a chaotic confrontation whose ...

Yasser Abu Shabab, leader of an Israel-backed militia in Gaza, has been killed, dealing a major blow to Israel’s proxy ...

The leader of an anti-Hamas group that was armed and backed by Israel has been killed in Gaza, the group confirmed Thursday, ...

Ghassan al-Dahini, a deputy of Yasser Abu Shabab, has taken over the slain Gazan tribal leader’s eponymous Israeli-backed militia, says the group, which goes by “the Popular Forces.” ...

Yasser Abu Shabab led a small Palestinian militia opposing Hamas that was armed by Israel.

Dahini’s authority in Popular Forces is considered precarious and vulnerable to internal rivalries as well as external ...

Yasser Abu Shabab, the leader of an Israeli-backed militia in Gaza, has been killed—marking a major blow to Israel’s strategy of building local Palestinian proxy forces to challenge Hamas. Abu Shabab, ...

Amna Abu Shabab, the wife of Yasser Abu Shabab, known for his cooperation with the Israeli occupation and for leading an ...