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Yasser Abu Shabab, leader of the Popular Forces and one of Hamas’s main rivals in Gaza, was killed on Thursday under still unclear circumstances.

Israeli media have offered contradictory accounts: some report an assassination carried out by Hamas members; others say he was killed in clashes between families in Gaza or even by fire from members of his own group, according to Israeli military radio.

For its part, the pro-Hamas Telegram channel Al-Sayad, which specializes in tracking alleged collaborators, claims that Abu Shabab and several of his men were eliminated in a Hamas-led ambush. None of these accounts has so far been independently confirmed.