![Members of the Abu Shabab gang in Gaza, seen in a video posted by the group on Facebook [Screengrab]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/gaza-abu-shabab-gang-video-screengrab-facebook-1-1.jpg)
The large family of an Israeli agent in Gaza has thrown itself on the mercy of the Palestinian people after it emerged that one of their sons had betrayed them all in an unforgivable act of treachery. Rafah-born gangster Yasser Abu Shabab enjoyed relative anonymity as a drug dealer in Gaza until the Hamas security services were tipped off about his criminal activity. The zero-tolerance approach to drugs by the Islamic Resistance Movement inevitably led to his arrest on drug trafficking charges in 2015 followed by a 25-year sentence in a Khan Yunis prison, where he was subsequently forgotten about by all but his large family in Rafah. When the cross-border incursion was launched on 7 October 2023, he was […]
