UN Report Exposes Hamas War Crimes: Militants and Police Publicly Execute, Kneecap, and Brutally Maim Dozens of Palestinians to Terrorize Their Own People

Even the notoriously anti-Israel United Nations is forced to admit the truth about Hamas’s barbaric rule in Gaza.

Hamas militants and police units in Gaza beat, maimed and publicly executed dozens of Palestinians during its war with Israel in acts amounting to war crimes, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday.

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights documented hundreds of cases of extrajudicial punishment in the war-ravaged territory — often publicized during and afterward to instill fear in the populace.

“These cases involved executions, kneecapping, bone-breaking with metal pipes or cement bricks and beatings and were framed by the perpetrators as punishments for alleged collaboration with Israel, looting humanitarian aid, theft, drug-related offenses or affiliations with internal rivals,” the report stated.

According to the findings, investigators identified 249 cases of executions and severe physical violence between 2024 and early 2025. At least 108 people were killed and 384 injured. Hamas-affiliated forces were directly involved in at least 60 of those incidents, including two public executions of 11 men. Many of these horrors were carried out in front of children.

According to the report:

Killings and acts causing bodily and mental harm by Palestinian armed groups in Gaza (Paras. 34–40)

The Commission investigated incidents of summary and extrajudicial executions and severe physical violence inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza by armed militants affiliated with Hamas.

The Commission identified 249 individual cases of executions and severe physical violence perpetrated between August 2024 and January 2026, including maiming, resulting in at least 108 deaths and 384 injured. These cases involved executions, kneecapping, bone-breaking with metal pipes or cement bricks, and beatings, and were framed by the perpetrators as punishments for alleged collaboration with Israel, looting humanitarian aid, theft, drug-related offenses, or affiliations with internal rivals. Private information about many victims, including full names and addresses, was published online (doxing), exposing victims and their families to further violence, stigma, and social exclusion.

The Commission found that Hamas-affiliated forces were involved in at least 60 incidents, seven of which were investigated in depth.

Three key Hamas-affiliated forces were found responsible for these violent acts: the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (the military wing of Hamas), the Sahm Unit (a plain-clothed paramilitary force created in March 2024 by Gaza’s Ministry of the Interior), and the Rad’a Force (established on 26 June 2025 as a paramilitary police force targeting crime, alleged collaborators, and rival factions). In several cases, multiple Hamas forces acted together, and in one case other Palestinian armed groups, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Mujahidin Brigades, were also involved.

At least six cases of extrajudicial punishment in 2025 were attributed to the Qassam Brigades, resulting in approximately nine executions and 20 injuries. At least 45 cases during 2024–2025 were attributed to the Sahm Unit, resulting in approximately 14 executions and 101 injuries. At least six cases during 2025–2026 were attributed to the Rad’a Force, resulting in approximately 12 executions and three injuries.

Statements published by a Sahm Unit-affiliated social media channel emphasized immediate, on-site punishments without due process. Statements released in June 2024 and November 2025 on Hamas-affiliated channels instructed medical practitioners to withhold medical care from victims. The Commission found these actions to be additional egregious violations affecting victims’ rights to a fair trial and to health.

The violent acts examined by the Commission caused both physical and mental harm, with significant long-term consequences, including lasting physical injuries, enduring family stigma, and social exclusion.

Yet despite documenting gruesome Hamas atrocities—including public executions, kneecappings, torture, and bone-breaking attacks against Palestinians—the U.N. commission still attempted to shift much of the blame back onto Israel.

According to the UN, “The report to the UN Human Rights Council concluded that the State of Israel is primarily responsible for actions of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, while Hamas-affiliated forces are responsible for acts committed by Palestinian militants in Gaza.”

“Violence by settlers is the direct outcome of Israeli policies that support, enable and protect their actions, whereas Hamas-affiliated forces have exploited the vacuum created by relentless Israeli attacks and widespread destruction of Gaza,” said Srinivasan Muralidhar, Chair of the Commission. “What is alarmingly similar is the deliberate infliction of suffering on Palestinian civilians. While their origins and motivations differ, both operate within environments engineered by Israel.”

The conclusion is a remarkable attempt to soften Hamas’ responsibility even after the U.N. itself documented hundreds of cases of torture, extrajudicial punishment, and public executions carried out by Hamas militants and police forces.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/un-report-exposes-hamas-war-crimes-militants-police/

Scandal-plagued Graham Platner clinches Dem Maine Senate primary: ‘I’ve made mistakes’

BLUE HILL, Maine — Controversial oyster farmer and Marine veteran Graham Platner easily won Maine’s Democratic Senate primary Tuesday night despite a string of scandals, including sporting a Nazi tattoo on his chest.

Platner was projected the winner by the Associated Press at 9:23 pm ET, and jumped to an early lead with 73.3% of the vote with about a fifth of the ballots counted, beating Gov. Janet Mills, who stopped campaigning in April.

In his victory speech, held in the rural town where he was born, Platner acknowledged he’s “far from perfect” but pledged to be a “senator for the people who cannot afford to buy a senator.”

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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks during a primary election night watch party after winning the Democratic nomination.AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty

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Platner embraces his wife Amy Gertner after sealing the win.“I’ve made mistakes in my life. Mistakes that I regret, that I live with and that I continue to learn from,” Platner said, while celebrating his grassroots campaign against billionaires and greedy corporations. 

“If you believe as I do that we can change our politics and change our country, then you must also believe that people can change,” he declared, before crediting his wife with helping him find redemption. “And the reason I believe that is because I lived it.”

The scandal-plagued Dem will face GOP Sen. Susan Collins in November in one of the nation’s most competitive Senate races. Platner dedicated the latter half of his speech to hurling fiery broadsides at Collins, panning her “as spineless and corrupt as the establishment she now serves.”

Early voting in Maine kicked off on May 11, before two former girlfriends of Platner’s accused him last week of physical abuse and other troubling behavior.

Then, on the eve of the primary, Platner’s former campaign political director Genevieve McDonald wrote a damning Washington Post op-ed warning Maine voters that he was unfit to become a senator.

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Graham Platner has kept insisting that he has no more skeletons in his closet before a new scandal emerges.Getty Images

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Incumbent Sen. Susan Collins has withstood Democratic efforts to unseat her for nearly three decades.AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

“I quit the campaign in October, disturbed by what I learned about the candidate and concerned about his potential impact on the Democratic Party’s prospects in my home state,” McDonald warned.

McDonald had also confirmed on the record that Platner’s wife disclosed to her that the candidate had sexted at least half a dozen other women since the pair married in 2023.

Platner was discovered to have an account on Kik, an anonymous chat platform notorious for facilitating hookups and sexual messages to young girls.

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The Kik account was still active earlier this month.Obtained by NY Post

The Democrat’s profile featured a mirror selfie of him shirtless, with a towel around his waist while his hand and cellphone covered up his notorious “Totenkopf” tattoo.

Voters at polling centers in Portland and Augusta told The Post they were still supporting Platner — though some cast their vote for him reluctantly.

“I mean he’s doing that himself,” Kristina Areccha told The Post when asked about whether the scandals make Platner look bad. “Where is the bar in politics?”

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Graham Platner has been endorsed by heavy-hitter ultra-progressive pols such as Bernie Sanders.Getty Images

Many committed Platner backers cited their eagerness to see Collins lose as their top reason for voting for him and called for pols to have a shot at redemption. Others said they simply want to see new blood sent to Washington, DC.

“I think we need new people in our government. We can’t just keep recycling the same old people. It’s just not working,” Kim Sorensen, 62, told The Post.

“I am a little hesitant; I truly was.”

Last week, Platner was rocked by a New York Times report detailing his “unsettling” behavior toward former flames.

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The oyster farmer has since inked over the Nazi tattoo.Instagram / @grahamformaine

One of the women, Lyndsey Fifield, alleged that Platner rough-housed her, on one occasion pulling her out of a cab by the wrists and at another point twisting her arm behind her back before trapping her in a room. Platner has denied Fifield’s claims, which he described as “politically motivated.”

Critically, Fifield claimed that Platner was fully aware of the Nazi origins of his tattoo, describing the symbol as “my Totenkopf” and claiming he got it alongside his comrades because “they were like a death unit, they were killers” like Hitler’s SS.

The outlet reviewed messages Fifield sent to friends in August 2025, in which she told them that Platner “has a Nazi tattoo on his chest” weeks before the body art became public knowledge.

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Polls had shown Graham Platner with a commanding lead in the Democratic primary for Maine Senate.

“Well, she certainly didn’t send that text to me,” Platner told MS NOW hours after the Times story was published when pressed about how she knew it was a Nazi tattoo while he supposedly didn’t.

The Democrat’s since-deleted Reddit feed has also revealed a trove of wildly offensive comments, including suggestions that sexual assault victims need to “take some responsibility,” trashing of a Purple Heart recipient veteran, slander of rural Americans as racist, and defenses of urinating on dead Taliban soldiers.

“I think it’s concerning. You want to have good character for people who are in there,” voter Ann Farrer, who is in her 40s and read the bombshell New York Times piece on Platner, told The Post. “But also, people don’t need to be angels to be good representatives.”

“Right now I’m neutral on this part.”

Farrer said she voted for Platner in the primary but has voted for Collins in the past and is open-minded about November.

Platner served in the Marines in the early 2000s, where he did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. More recently, he has been an oyster farmer, though financial disclosures list his mother’s restaurant as his only customer.

If Platner were to agree to step aside by July 13, there is a path for Democrats to replace him as their nominee for Maine’s Senate seat, widely seen as their top pickup opportunity in the upper chamber for 2026.

Platner has a 7.4 percentage point edge over Collins in the RealClearPolitics polling aggregate, which underestimated her standing by double digits during her 2020 re-election bid.

https://nypost.com/2026/06/09/us-news/scandal-magnet-graham-platner-clinches-dem-nod-for-maine-senate/