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Yasser Abu Shabab

In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian miltant”. Today it says “palestinian militant who was the founding leader of the popular forces”.
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Yasser Abu Shabab (born 19 December 1993) is a Palestinian miltant, drug trafficker and leader of the Popular Forces , an Israeli -backed anti- Hamas armed group in the Gaza Strip allegedly linked to the Islamic State (IS). He belongs to the Bedouin tribe of Tarabin in Rafah . Abu Shabab has emerged as a local opposition figure to Hamas during the ongoing Gaza war . In May 2024, his group began looting aid trucks, claiming he was providing security for humanitarian aid convoys entering Gaza during the Rafah offensive . Abu Shabab was reportedly the mastermind behind the Kerem Shalom aid convoy looting . Israel began providing Abu Shabab's group with weapons and equipment in 2025. As of June 2025, he has reportedly seized control over eastern Rafah. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ). "Liberman accuses Netanyahu of arming ISIS-linked militias in Gaza; PM's office offers no denial" . The Times of Israel .

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palestinian militant who was the founding leader of the popular forces

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