Kushner Meets Anti-Hamas Warlord in Southern Israel as New Power Order Emerges in Gaza. Exclusive reports suggest quiet U.S. coordination with local Gaza militias aimed at crushing Hamas’s grip once and for all.
In a scene that would have been unthinkable a year ago, Yasser Abu Shabab, the shadowy head of a powerful anti-Hamas militia operating in Rafah, reportedly walked into a U.S. military command center in southern Israel this week and sat across the table from Jared Kushner, a son-in-law and senior adviser to President Donald Trump and widely considered to be the chief architect of America’s new Middle East order.
According to a report by Saudi outlet Al-Hadath, the meeting marks a pivotal shift in the ongoing reorganization of Gaza’s political and security landscape. The talks centered on one thing: how to replace Hamas’s iron rule with a network of pragmatic, clan-based militias loyal to local leaders, and quietly coordinated by Washington and Jerusalem.
Saudi outlet Al Arabiya reports Jared Kushner met with anti-Hamas militia leader Yasser Abu Shabab to discuss Gaza operations and the possible exit of 200 Hamas members from Rafah. pic.twitter.com/AqQnl1h88D
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A New Force on the Ground
Al-Hadath claims that Abu Shabab’s representatives have maintained a permanent presence inside the U.S. forward command headquarters, underscoring an ongoing channel of coordination between his forces and American advisers. During the meeting, the sides reportedly discussed a daring proposal: that Abu Shabab’s fighters would supervise the surrender and relocation of Hamas operatives trapped inside Rafah’s collapsing tunnel networks, a scenario that would effectively humiliate the Islamist group by forcing its own men to emerge under the watchful eyes of their local rivals.
If realized, the plan would dramatically expand the militia’s operational footprint in southern Gaza, where local clans and ex-security officers are increasingly challenging what remains of Hamas authority.
The Rise of the Clan Militias
The U.S.-led international task force stationed in southern Israel is said to be in constant contact with Gaza’s emerging anti-Hamas warlords, a patchwork of tribal, political, and former Palestinian Authority figures who have turned against the terror regime after years of brutality and misrule.
Their stated mission is not merely to hand out food or secure humanitarian corridors. It is to restore a semblance of order in the vacuum left by Hamas’s disintegration, and to build, from the ground up, an indigenous force capable of policing Gaza without Hamas, without the PA, and without foreign occupation.
Among these rising figures are Husam al-Astal, a former Preventive Security Service officer under the command of Mohammed Dahlan, and Yasser Abu Shabab, the Rafah-based militia chief now emerging as one of Gaza’s most influential strongmen. Both men lead clan-backed forces that have been fighting daily street battles with Hamas remnants across the Strip, carving out “safe zones” in Khan Younis and eastern Rafah.
State-owned Saudi news outlet al-Arabiya reported that Jared Kushner met with anti-Hamas militia leader Yasser Abu Shabab.
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The two reportedly discussed Shabab's role in Gaza where Hamas was not active, including possibly securing the exit of 200 Hamas members trapped in Rafah. pic.twitter.com/wnhL7ypwxC
Quiet Coordination with Israel
In recent interviews with Arab media, al-Astal openly admitted that his fighters receive logistical support and intelligence coordination from Israel, adding that there is a “mutual understanding” between himself, Abu Shabab, and Israeli defense officials.
For Jerusalem, the arrangement is born of necessity. With no Arab country willing to deploy peacekeepers into territory still crawling with armed Hamas cells, Israel and the U.S. have turned to local power brokers, men who know Gaza’s streets, tunnels, and tribal loyalties better than any foreign general ever could.
According to Israel Hayom, the multinational stabilization force discussed between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jared Kushner today remains largely theoretical. Despite diplomatic fanfare, not a single Western or Arab nation (save Turkey, which Jerusalem has already ruled out) has volunteered to send troops into Gaza until Hamas is fully disarmed, a process that could take months, if not years.
𝗬𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘂 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗮𝗯’𝘀 𝗣𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗮𝘇𝗮
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There has been a lot of talk concerning Yasser Abu Shabab, the Bedouin Gazan leader who heads up an armed opposition group to Hamas. The group has been guarding the aid trucks heading… pic.twitter.com/oYZanCjvBH
From Chaos to a New Order
Thus, the uneasy partnership taking shape on Gaza’s southern frontier may well represent the true architecture of the post-Hamas era: a decentralized network of local militias, working with U.S. and Israeli oversight, gradually assuming authority block by block, tunnel by tunnel.
It is a dangerous experiment, part counterinsurgency, part social engineering, but one that reflects a harsh truth: there is no vacuum in Gaza. Someone will fill it.
And for now, the men doing so are no longer shouting “Allahu Akbar.” They’re whispering to American soldiers in Hebrew-accented Arabic.
