Gaza residents remain uncertain about future as Hamas fighters reappear

After President Donald Trump declared within the Israeli Knesset that “the battle is over” and celebrated the return of the remaining residing hostages, Hamas terrorists throughout the border in Gaza reportedly murdered his opponents in Gaza Metropolis’s primary sq. – in full view of the general public.

Movies circulating on social media seem to indicate the executions. An Israeli army official instructed Fox Information Digital that it’s “Hamas’ deliberate try to publicly show the killing and re-establish its rule by terrorizing civilians.”

Talking to Fox Information Digital, Gazans described Hamas fighters returning to the streets and reasserting management – but some stated this may be their first actual probability for change and to do away with the phobia regime.

Mukhaimar Abu Saada, a Gaza-based political analyst, instructed Fox Information Digital that disarming Hamas won’t be straightforward as clashes have already damaged out between the group and native militias. “It isn’t going to occur anytime quickly,” he stated. “We’re speaking about an ideological group. Even final evening, folks had been killed in clashes between Hamas and native militias. It’s not a rosy path.”

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President Donald Trump addresses the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, on October 13, 2025 in Jerusalem. President Trump visits the nation simply hours after Hamas launched the remaining Israeli hostages captured on October 7, 2023, as a part of a US-brokered ceasefire settlement to finish the battle in Gaza. (Picture by Evelyn Hockstein – Pool/Getty Photos)

Abu Saada stated Hamas has issued an ultimatum that provides Israel’s collaborators till October 19 to give up and search amnesty from Hamas – so long as they don’t seem to be concerned in killings.

“They’re nonetheless robust,” he admitted. “A part of the explanation they have not fought tougher in current days is as a result of they saved some males and weapons for the subsequent day. I nonetheless see Hamas police on the streets of Gaza. Trump stated they misplaced hundreds, however they’re nonetheless there and might management the streets as soon as Israel has redeployed.”

A person in Gaza who requested to stay nameless instructed Fox Information Digital that regardless of official statements, “you may’t say the battle is over,” he stated. “We’ve to attend just a few weeks to see what occurs. There are gangs in Gaza now; Hamas is making an attempt to battle them. If they do not unite, one other battle might escape.”

He described Hamas as weakened and divided. “Hamas will not be as robust as earlier than. Those that stay are primarily law enforcement officials – not the actual Hamas individuals who imagine of their extremist jihadist ideology,” he stated. “We’ve to see what occurs subsequent and see in the event that they construct again up.”

He stated the group’s survival depends upon the deal’s acceptance. He referred to as the state of affairs “very unusual” and famous that Hamas agreed to launch all hostages whereas Israel nonetheless controls elements of Gaza. “It isn’t an actual deal but. We want somebody from Hamas to clarify what they agreed to as a result of we want to consider our future.”

On October 13, 2025, a bunch of Hamas terrorists had been captured in Deir-el Balah in central Gaza, whereas twenty residing Israeli hostages had been launched. (Images by TPS-IL)

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One other man in Gaza Metropolis expressed the identical uncertainty. “Nobody is aware of what is going to occur – who will rule, what is going to occur to Hamas and whether or not the battle is admittedly over,” he stated. “We hope for a greater future. I simply need me and my household to reside with out targets, with out bloodshed.”

Bizarre Gazans, he added, are exhausted however eager for calm. “Folks simply need the blood to cease. They need to cease shedding their kinfolk and associates… It’s now of their fingers – whether or not they’ll enable Hamas to proceed or finally revolt. However nothing is evident.”

Abu Saada stated there’s “little doubt that Hamas should disarm a method or one other,” describing it as an inevitable a part of the plan introduced by President Trump and endorsed by Israeli leaders.

“The true query is who could have these weapons – the Palestinian Authority or the so-called ‘safety stabilization pressure’ that must be deployed subsequent. It is going to definitely occur, however we have now to attend for the second section of negotiations.”

A Gaza household walks close to the rubble of buildings through the Eid al-Adha vacation in Gaza Metropolis, June 6, 2025. (Mahmoud Issa/Reuters)

Abu Saada stated even Qatari mediators confirmed that disarmament “has not but been mentioned, however shall be mentioned within the coming days.” For now, he added, Gazans are centered on survival after “two years of distress, destruction and bloodshed.”

In the end, he stated, Hamas should comply. “No Arab nation will give a single greenback if Hamas doesn’t disarm itself. The reconstruction of Gaza depends upon Hamas now not being in management. The battle is over, however the actual check is simply starting.”

As voices in Gaza mirror the uncertainty, specialists in Washington say Hamas’s political and army isolation has by no means been higher.

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Jacob Olidort, director of the Heart for American Safety on the America First Coverage Institute, instructed Fox Information Digital that Hamas is “in probably the most militarily and diplomatically remoted place it has ever been.”

“Even earlier than and after the discharge of the hostages, Hamas was defiant in tone,” Olidort stated. “However all that shall be overshadowed by the large growth of peace agreements between Israel and its neighbors. All of Israel’s regional companions are desirous to normalize and construct on the place they left off earlier than October 7.”

On October 13, 2025, a bunch of Hamas gunmen had been captured in Deir-el Balah in central Gaza, whereas twenty residing Israeli hostages had been launched. (Images by TPS-IL)

Olidort stated the summit in Sharm el-Sheikh will mark the beginning of section two of Trump’s plan: “What is occurring on the bottom now doesn’t mirror the way forward for Gaza,” he stated. “Not one of the steps within the peace plan have but been carried out. What comes subsequent shall be decided by that summit and by the regional consensus that Hamas can not proceed to manage Gaza.”

For Israel, he added, “the main focus shall be on restarting, in a extra public approach, its regional and world partnerships – protection, business and diplomatic. That’s the place Israel’s future lies.”

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Whereas the weapons fall silent, the subsequent section – the disarmament of Hamas and the arrival of a stabilization pressure – will decide whether or not Gaza lastly begins reconstruction or falls again into chaos. As Abu Saada put it: “The battle is over, however the query is whether or not peace will actually start.”