From the Department of Will Wonders Never Cease comes the news that the UN — the UN! — has published a scathing report accusing Hamas operatives of beating, maiming, and executing Gazans, in a reign of terror in the Strip. More on the report can be found here: “Hamas forces executed, maimed dozens of Palestinians in Gaza, UN report says,” Associated Press, June 9, 2026:
Hamas operatives and police units in Gaza beat, maimed and publicly executed dozens of Palestinians during the terror group’s war with Israel in acts amounting to war crimes, according to a United Nations report released today.
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ report documents hundreds of cases of extrajudicial punishment in the war-ravaged territory, which it said were often publicized during and afterward to instill fear in the populace.
“These cases involved executions, kneecapping, bone-breaking with metal pipes or cement bricks and beatings and were framed by the perpetrators as punishments for alleged collaboration with Israel, looting humanitarian aid, theft, drug-related offenses or affiliations with internal rivals,” it says.
The commission finds that Hamas-affiliated operatives and police forces were involved in nearly one-fourth of the 249 documented cases — including 108 deaths — from August 2024 to January 2026. The commission specifically investigated cases involving Hamas-affiliated forces but also counted ones attributed to other armed groups….According to the report, rather than being imposed through courts or judges, the punishments were carried out by Hamas’s military wing and police units….
The UN report cites executions recorded on video, including one of three blindfolded men who were shot by masked men outside Shifa Hospital in September 2025 before a crowd. It describes another public execution a month later, when eight men were dragged into a public square in Gaza City and shot. Both groups were accused of being spies, traitors and collaborators, according to the report.
The instances, the commission says, “amount to the war crime of murder and to a violation of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, including the right to life, the right to liberty and security and the right to a fair trial.”…
Apparently those marching in our streets and on our campuses, denouncing the colonial-settler apartheid genocidal state of Israel, have had no indignation left to direct at Hamas itself, which tortures and executes Gazans who dare to speak out against it. Will this report, which the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights so surprisingly issued, persuade them to also direct their anger at Hamas for its horrific treatment of Gazan civilians? Don’t be silly.
Maria V says
For the UN to admit this is surprising? Are they going to do anything about or to Hamas, I doubt it…
OLD GUY says
The UN saying anything anti Hamas or Islam is a big surprise.
Greg says
That’s a switch!
6woods says
Have pigs flown? Is there a blue moon? This cannot be true.