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** Trump's Slow, Faltering 'Peace' Plan Enabling Hamas to Torture and Murder Palestinians ([link removed])
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • January 8, 2026 at 5:00 am
* Trump's plan may have ended the Israeli-Hamas war, but it has not stopped Hamas from waging its own brutal campaign against its own people.
* Since the ceasefire went into effect, Hamas has turned hospitals in the Gaza Strip from terrorist command centers into terrorist interrogation and detention centers.
* "Hamas has turned all of Gaza's hospitals into MAJOR police, intelligence, and security headquarters, a flagrant criminal violation of international law and humanitarian law and basic decency." — Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, Palestinian political analyst and former resident of the Gaza Strip, x.com, January 1, 2026.
* "Hamas isn't hiding its brutality. The hospitals of Al-Shifa, Al-Aqsa and Nasser are not simply medical centers. Hamas has repurposed Gaza's main hospitals as interrogation sites, cages, gulags for perceived 'dissidents.'" -- Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, x.com, January 6, 2026.
* "How many of our people need to disappear into hospital basements, interrogation rooms, and 'revolutionary courts' before the pro-Palestine movement stops romanticizing this militia and starts seeing what Gazans have been living under for years?" — Hamza Howidy, Palestinian political activist from the Gaza Strip, now in Europe, x.com, November 30, 2025
* Hamas, according to Palestinian sources, has set up a number of armed units whose main mission is to hunt down and silence its political rivals. Some of these Palestinians have been forced to make public "confessions" about their alleged ties to Israel. The videos are then posted on various Hamas-affiliated social media platforms as part of a psychological warfare designed to terrorize and deter the residents of the Gaza Strip.
* Hamas wants to go back to the days when the international community, including the United Nations, was providing humanitarian aid and food to the Gaza residents while the terror group was busy building tunnels, manufacturing weapons and preparing massacres against Israel.
* Hamas's "political" leaders, living luxuriously in Qatar, are no less dangerous than the terrorists hiding in Gaza's tunnels. There must be no room in the Middle East for terrorists and criminals who continue to commit crimes not only against Israel, but also against their own people. By the time the second phase of Trump's plan begins, the only Palestinians left in the Gaza Strip will be the leaders of Hamas and their supporters.

President Donald J. Trump's peace plan for Gaza may have ended the Israeli-Hamas war, but it has not stopped Hamas from waging its own brutal campaign against its own people. Since the ceasefire went into effect, Hamas has been arresting, torturing and publicly executing suspected "collaborators." Pictured: Hamas terrorists in Gaza on February 15, 2025. (Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

While the US and other countries are talking about the need to move to the second phase of President Donald J. Trump's 20-point peace plan, the Iran-backed Hamas terror group is continuing to reassert its control over parts of the Gaza Strip that are no longer under Israeli control.

Hamas, in addition to rearming and regrouping, has stepped up its crackdown on Palestinians suspected of "collaboration" with Israel.

Hamas's goal is to intimidate and deter the residents of the Gaza Strip and remind them that the terror group has no plans to end its rule or lay down its weapons. As far as Hamas is concerned, any Palestinian who believes in Israel's right to exist and opposes terrorism is a traitor who should be punished by death.

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