He’s grasping a rifle and UN vehicles move behind him as he waves through traffic. The man is Yasser Abu Shabab, who says he commands hundreds of armed men known as the Popular Forces to offer ...

Criminal gangs with links to IS are being armed by Israel as a proxy force to advance the final phase of the war in Gaza, ...

Yasser Abu Shabab has been named as the leader of a Palestinian militia in Gaza that Israeli officials have reportedly armed to attempt to undermine Hamas, the New York Times reported on Friday.

Yasser Abu Shabab, a Bedouin man in his 30s, holds sway in eastern Rafah, an area close to a key border crossing between Israel and Gaza. By Adam Rasgon Reporting from Jerusalem Yasser Abu Shabab ...

A man named Yasser Abu Shabab has emerged in Gaza, claiming to take control of the area. Yasser Abu Shabab is a tribal leader from the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip, who is said to be an agent of ...

The head of the militia, Yasser Abu Shabab, has been given arms by the Israeli military that it found inside Gaza during the war, according to an Israeli official. A video released this week by ...

Yasser Abu Shabab, head of the “Popular Forces” militia operating in eastern Rafah (now under IDF control), granted his first-ever interview to an Israeli media outlet, giving an interview in ...