Repeated batterings by the IDF have reduced Hamas’ power in Gaza. More than 25,000 Hamas combatants — half of the terror group’s prewar strength — have been killed, and thousands of others have been wounded, including some too severely to ever return to fighting. The IDF has managed to kill 95% of the Hamas commanders, including all of its most senior leaders. Lacking funds, Hamas has had to decrease salaries to its members, or not pay them altogether, and the result is that it is hard to recruit new members or to hold onto those who are already in Hamas, and suffering from its economic collapse. The people of Gaza, looking around at the rubble, and contemplating the human cost of a war that Hamas brought down upon the Strip, are ever more willing to speak out against the group. They are now keenly aware of how Hamas has been stealing large amounts of humanitarian aid, distributing it to its own members and their extended families, and selling some as well at exorbitant prices to the very people for whom that aid was intended to be distributed for free.
Now the leaders of the large families, or clans, have been seizing control of their local turf, defying Hamas’ attempts to rein them in. More on this failure of Hamas to maintain its control of the security situation in Gaza can be found here: “‘Security situation has completely collapsed’: Hamas has lost 80% of its control over Gaza- report,” Jerusalem Post, July 7, 2025:
Hamas has reportedly lost about 80% of its control over Gaza, a senior official from the terrorist organization told the BBC.
The official explained that Hamas’s command and control infrastructure had collapsed after months of Israeli airstrikes, which wiped out its political, military, and security leadership.
“Let’s be realistic here – there’s barely anything left of the security structure. Most of the leadership, about 95%, are now dead… The active figures have all been killed,” he said in the interview published Sunday.
“Logically, it has to continue until the end,” the Hamas official said. “All the conditions are aligned: Israel has the upper hand, the world is silent, the Arab regimes are silent, criminal gangs are everywhere, and society is collapsing.
“Let me be clear: the security situation has completely collapsed. There is no control anywhere.
“So, the security situation is zero. Hamas’s control is zero. There’s no leadership, no command, no communication. Salaries are delayed, and when they arrive, they are barely usable. Some die just trying to collect them. It’s total collapse.”On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he and US President Donald Trump are determined to eliminate Hamas’s military capabilities, in addition to bringing the hostages home.
“We are still focused on the Gaza arena. We have also achieved great successes there, but there are still tasks to complete,” Netanyahu stated prior to his visit to Washington.
“We are also determined to ensure that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel. This means we will not allow a situation where there are more kidnappings, more killings, more beheadings, or more invasions. This means one thing: the destruction of Hamas’s military and governmental capabilities. Hamas will not be there.”…
With Hamas having lost control of four-fifths of Gaza, according to distraught Hamas members themselves, it should be easier for Netanyahu to obtain his stated goal of a Gaza where Hamas does not exist either as a military or a political force, but is expelled from the Strip altogether. That means out of a total population of 2.2 million in Gaza, some 20,000-30,000 will be pushed out — a perfectly manageable number — perhaps to be taken in by Iran or Qatar, Hamas’ two remaining friends in the region.
After the collapse of the Assad regime, Hamas could no longer readily receive weapons and money from Iran. As a result, it more and more needed to rely on the amounts it made from stealing humanitarian aid and selling it at exorbitant prices to the people for whom it was meant to be distributed for free. But when Israel and the United States set up the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) to distribute aid, and to provide security to make sure Hamas was no longer able to seize any of it, Hamas’ revenues plummeted, and as a result, so did the amounts it could pay its members. The GHF system to distribute, under armed guard, humanitarian aid, has harmed Hamas as much as it has helped the people of Gaza.
Hamas has lost 95% of its commanders in Gaza. Its command-and-control centers and its weapons warehouses have been devastated. More than half of its fighters have been killed. It has lost control of the humanitarian aid that, before the GHF entered the picture, it had managed to pillage at will, selling some of the aid, and using the money derived from those sales to pay its combatants. It is no longer be able to do so.
So weak has Hamas become that the large families, such as the Abu Shabab Bedouin clan based in Rafah, have declared their opposition to Hamas, and seized control of local areas, defying the terror group’s threats to dislodge them, and demanding that they surrender to Hamas’ authority. Hamas has not only been militarily destroyed by the IDF, but it has lost almost all its authority in the Strip, its once fearsome ability to scare the Gazans into submission. Instead, the clans have stepped forward to replace Hamas, in their own territories, so that a patchwork of powerful families now rule four-fifths of Gaza. And to judge by their pronouncements, they despise Hamas, that has brought the Gazans to such grief, and are ready to make a permanent peace with Israel.
Rick Gordon says
Obviously the Hamas leaders – and their money – in Quatar don’t read such analysis or care about people in Gaza.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
The Hamas leaders have stolen billions of dollars of the foreign aid meant to be spent on all Gazans. Just four of them – Moussa abu Marzouk, the late Ismail Haniyeh, Khaled Meshaal, and the late Yahya Sinwar, have by themselves stolen fourteen billion dollars. Imagine what that money could have done to help the people of Gaza.
John Smith says
Exactly Hugh, their greed and selfishness is beyond belief. There is not a single person or family in the entire world that needs billions to survive. I just can’t believe that such people exist, but unfortunately they do.
gravenimage says
+1
࿗Infidel࿘ says
That may be, but it doesn’t mean that the other 80% is in Israeli control. The Gazans still run the place. When are they gonna be deported to countries like Somalia and France?
MJ Raichyk, PhD says
Yes.. the Gazan Bedouin clan in power are likely as ”civil” as the Bedouin in Syria attacking the Druze in Syria, which then required the IDF to FORCEFULLY stop the carnage…
SO……
Does ”making peace with Israel” mean ”being civil”?
TTYL
abu taleb says
As long as there are muslims, the hostility toward Israel, the Jews and other non muslims will exist.
gravenimage says
Hamas Has Lost Control of 80% of Gaza
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I hope this is the case.
Patrick says
It’s critical for Israel’s survival to wipe out the other 20% of Hamas, take total control of GAZA, own it, develop it. Destroy all Hamas property. Beware of all Arab Muslims, all devout Muslims, wherever you have Muslims, you have jihad.
Tony says
Israel should own the land. Islam, its Mosques, its Schools, its Islamic Centers, etc. should be banned and made illegal, and Muslims should be deported for their terrorism, segregation, discrimination, and violence as taught in Islam’s Quran(Quran 9:5, 29, 111, etc.).
Allah’s hateful Islam, a Criminal-Terrorist Enterprise and a Murderous-Demonic Cult of Believers, Muslim Soldiers for Allah, continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, mass murder, intimidation, supremacy, segregation, hatred, incitement to violence, criminality, genocide, victimhood, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law, Sharia, and in Islam’s Quran(Quran 9:41, 88; 5:35, etc.).
Allah’s specious ideology in Qur’an 8:39 commands Muslims to fight Non-Muslims until they surrender to Muslim rule when it says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” Hence, Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Americans and Westerners via Tax Exempt Organizations, the Media and Hollywood, Foreign Funding, etc. because Islam violates and is incompatible with Western Laws(Quran 9:5,29, 111; 47:4; 49:15; 60:4 etc.).
Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam and its Muslims function as a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims to make Islam supreme and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes Terrorist Criminal Organizations with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah(Quran 9:5,29, 111; 49:15 etc.).
Allah’s Islam, a supremacist Antichrist Ideology, is using Western Freedoms and Laws against Non-Muslims to conquer Non-Muslims under Islamic Rule. Non-Muslims should legally designate Islam as a Muslim Terrorist Organization(MTO) where Mosques, Muslim Schools, Islamic Centers, Sharia Courts, and Muslim Organizations are banned because of their incitement of segregation and discrimination to fight back against ISLAMIZATION, Muslim subjugation, and tyrannical violence(Quran 4:65; 9:5,29,111; 60:4; 98:6-7 and more).
Sahih Bukhari 3126 says, “… the Prophet said, He who fights so that Allah’s Word(ie. Islam) should be superior, fights for Allah’s Cause.” Allah, the Destroyer, in Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah[ie. Allah’s Cause), so they kill and are killed…”. Allah teaches that Death By Jihad leads to Muslim Paradise. Allah in Qur’an 3:169 says, “And do not consider those who were killed for the sake of Allah as dead. Yet they are alive with their lord, receiving their provision.”
Under Islam and Islamic Law, Muslims have the Legal Right and the Quranic Duty to terrorize Non-Muslims because neglecting this QURANIC DUTY is a CRIME of Blasphemy, Unbelief, and Infidelity against tyrannical Allah. Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION AS SUPREME(Quran 3:115, 151; 9:5, 29, 111; Muslim Law Manual: “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0 and more).
More specifically, Islam, a terroristic-totalitarian way of life, is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of: incitement, intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, slavery, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, sedition, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:191, 208,216; 4:65, 89,91, 95, 115; 5:14,64; 8:12,39,60, 74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49, 73,88, 111,123; 21:92; 47:4; 49:15; 60:4; 61:9-11; 62:6; 89:14; etc.).
skeptiker says
Keine guten Nachrichten, dass erst 80% in Gaza von den Terroristen gesäubert wurden. Der Krieg gegen die Islamo-Faschisten Hamas dauert schon viel zu lange und es werden immer noch 50 Geiseln festgehalten. Ich freue mich auf den Tag, wenn Netanjahu verkündet, dass Gaza zu 100% von Terrorismus befreit ist, die Geiseln zurück nach Hause gebracht werden, keine heldenhaften IDF Soldaten mehr sterben müssen und dieses Land von Israel annektiert, wiederaufgebaut und besiedelt wird. Die “Palästinenser” sollen bleiben wo der Pfeffer wächst. Sie hatten viele Chancen ein Leben in Frieden und Wohlstand in guter Nachbarschaft mit Israel zu leben. Nach dem Massaker vom 7.Oktober 2023 ist dieser Zug endgültig abgefahren