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<h1 class="gmail-single_title">The occupation\u2019s collaborator militias in Gaza, dirty tools and an inevitable end</h1>
<p class="gmail-single_date">Monday 16-February-2026</p>
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<p>GAZA, (PIC)</p>
<p>In the post war phase, the phenomenon of collaborator militias for
the occupation in the Gaza Strip does not appear to be a passing
security file, but rather an expression of a deeper attempt to reshape
the internal space of the Strip through local tools operating within
Israeli military and intelligence calculations.</p>
<p>With the ceasefire entering into force on 10 October 2025, this file
emerged as one of the most dangerous challenges facing the social and
security structure in Gaza.</p>
<p>Historical experiences indicate that occupation powers, when they
find themselves facing a high-cost environment for direct control,
resort to producing a local intermediary layer tasked with the most
dangerous and sensitive missions.</p>
<p>In Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Lebanon, local armed entities were
formed with direct external support, but they collapsed quickly once
political or military equations changed.</p>
<p>The decisive factor in all those cases was not military superiority,
but the absence of social legitimacy and total dependence on the
external sponsor.</p>
<p class="gmail-has-vivid-red-color gmail-has-text-color gmail-has-link-color gmail-wp-elements-29f5727be623d31bc58d95e7c341674d">A complex equation in Gaza</p>
<p>In Gaza, the equation appears more complex. A society emerging from a
long war is burdened by immense economic and social pressure, which
creates gaps that can be exploited.</p>
<p>Palestinian security sources indicate that some members of these
groups come from distressed or marginal social backgrounds, and were
recruited through financial promises or security protection, and tasked
with missions related to combing combat areas, dismantling explosive
devices, inspecting tunnels, gathering information, and even carrying
out assassinations with direct technical support.</p>
<p>Gaza based writer and activist Bilal Jamil believes that the core of
the crisis lies in the loss of national legitimacy, considering that any
formation operating under the umbrella of the occupation remains bound
to a temporary fate, even if it appears at a given moment to be strong
or capable of imposing a field presence.</p>
<p>He emphasizes that history tends to bring down such structures when
external protection is cut off or when social isolation toward them
deepens.</p>
<p class="gmail-has-vivid-red-color gmail-has-text-color gmail-has-link-color gmail-wp-elements-d8a735f9dabc59097a62442f43e4e349">Low-cost tools</p>
<p>Security affairs expert Wasif Arikat goes further, considering that
what is happening in Gaza falls within a classic Israeli strategy based
on managing the conflict through local low-cost tools.</p>
<p>Arikat explains in a conversation with the PIC correspondent that the
occupation seeks to reduce direct friction of its forces in complex
environments like Gaza, by assigning local groups high risk tasks, so
these groups bear the field burden while Israel remains in a position of
support and direction.</p>
<p>Arikat adds that the danger of this phenomenon does not stop at its
security dimension, but extends to an attempt to dismantle the social
fabric and push society into a circle of mutual doubt and suspicion.
When local tools are planted in a closed and interconnected environment
like Gaza, the goal becomes not only gathering information or executing
specific operations, but creating a long term psychological and social
rupture. He believes that the occupation is betting on exhausting
society and draining it internally, so that the confrontation shifts
from a struggle with an external power to a permanent internal tension.</p>
<p class="gmail-has-vivid-red-color gmail-has-text-color gmail-has-link-color gmail-wp-elements-9a456ea2f20b4208fd9b497857a9501a">Pursuit and drying up recruitment channels</p>
<p>On the other hand, sources in the resistance confirm that there is a
focused effort to prevent the expansion of this phenomenon, through
pursuing the involved elements and drying up recruitment channels, in
addition to socially isolating them. These sources indicate that the
success of any militia depends on its ability to find a popular base,
which appears so far to be absent in light of the general alignment
rejecting cooperation with the occupation.</p>
<p>The speech of the spokesperson of the Al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obeida,
who threatened members of these groups with a \u201cblack fate,\u201d reflects
that the file has moved to the forefront of security concern, especially
after the occurrence of incidents described as dangerous in areas of
the south of the Strip.</p>
<p>However, Arikat warns against reducing the phenomenon to its punitive
dimension only, pointing out that an effective confrontation requires
addressing the causes of social and economic fragility that are
exploited in recruitment operations, because the battle at its core is
not purely military, but structural as well.</p>
<p>The scene in Gaza remains open to multiple possibilities. The
continuation of these formations depends on direct Israeli support,
while their collapse is linked to the extent of society\u2019s ability to
isolate and reject them, and the ability of internal forces to dismantle
their networked structure. But what historical experiences reveal, as
Jamil and Arikat see it, is that entities built outside the national
will and managed with a purely security function rarely endure for long.</p>
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