public executions in bid IDF kills five 'suspects'

GAZA PEACE IN BALANCE

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THE fragile Middle East ceasefire hung in the balance last night as Hamas delayed returning all the bodies of dead Israeli hostages and also began publicly executing enemies in Gaza.

A video circulating on social media appeared to show masked gunmen, some wearing green headbands resembling ones worn by Hamas, machine gunning at least seven men after forcing them to kneel.

Civilian spectators in the street cheered “Allahu Akbar,” or God is Great, and called those killed “collaborators”.

Yesterday Israel’s military also admitted killing five “suspects” in Gaza who it claimed had crossed the line of withdrawal. Hamas said those deaths were a breach of the ceasefire.

US President Donald Trump last night said of Hamas: “We have told them to disarm. If they don’t disarm, we will disarm them. And it will happen quickly and perhaps violently.”

The Islamist terror group has killed at least 33 people in a crackdown so far as it seeks to reassert dominance in Gaza as Israel pulls out its troops.