Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Gaza-born anti-Hamas activist, posted this video of the funeral of Izz al-Din al-Haddad, a senior Hamas official eliminated by Israel overnight. Alkhatib said that normally, Hamas conducts quiet funerals for its terrorists when they are eliminated by the IDF, but in this case, the terror group rushed to hold the funeral of al-Haddad, hoping to display a show of support for Hamas. The ploy failed miserably, as the funeral drew fewer than a thousand people.

The crowd, which numbered 700-800 people, comprised mostly children and teenagers. There were no displays of “resistance theatrics,” and banners, vehicles and the expected throngs of mourners were conspicuously absent.

“It was a humiliating display that underscores a reality long visible to anyone actually connected to Gaza: Hamas is overwhelmingly loathed, feared, and rejected by most of the Strip’s population,” Alkhatib posted on X alongside the video.

He pointed out that Hamas’ Western supporters mourning the terrorists’ death outnumbered the mourners in Gaza, while many actual Gazans celebrated the IDF’s elimination of al-Haddad.

“More online ‘activists,’ ‘commentators,’ and self‑styled ‘pro‑Palestine’ personalities mourned al‑Haddad’s death than Palestinians inside Gaza,” he said. “Dozens of contacts, friends, and social media posts from inside the Strip showed the opposite reaction: relief, celebration, even open joy at his elimination.”

“This is yet another data point in a long pattern: Gazans are done with Hamas, and Hamas knows it,” he concluded.