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Quién es Yasser Abu Shabab, el líder de una de las milicias que Israel está armando para combatir a Hamas

Yasser Abu Shabab es hoy el palestino más buscado de Gaza.
En plena guerra, que ya mató a más de 50.000 personas y devastó el enclave, no está en la mira de Israel. De hecho, puede darse el lujo de pasar sin temor cerca de los soldados del ejército israelí. Sin embargo, no puede caminar tranquilo. Su nombre está en el primer casillero de la lista de enemigos de Hamas.
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La historia sacudió el tablero interno de Gaza. El gobierno israelí reconoció el 5 de junio que armó a una milicia palestina autodenominada Fuerzas Populares, liderada por Abu Shabab, alias “el agente israelí”, para enfrentar a Hamas en su propio terreno. “Movilizamos clanes en Gaza rivales de Hamas. ¿Qué tiene de malo? Es bueno. Salva vidas de los soldados”, dijo el primer ministro, Benjamin Netanyahu, en un video publicado en su cuenta de X.
Era un secreto mal guardado. El premier, acorralado, debió admitir que su gobierno estaba entregando armas a un jefe de un clan local después de la denuncia en ese sentido del líder opositor y exministro de Defensa, Avigdor Lieberman.
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La noticia no pasó desapercibida. Las dudas y la desconfianza golpearon a los israelíes y mucho más cuándo se viralizaron las sospechas sobre supuestas conexiones del nuevo aliado gazatí con el Estado Islámico, el brutal grupo terrorista que llegó a crear un Califato en amplias extensiones de territorio en Irak y Siria hace poco más de una década.
“La milicia de Abu Shabab fue acusada originalmente por Israel de recibir fondos y estar vinculada con el Estado Islámico, pero esa misma organización lo desmintió y dijo que todo formaba parte de una operación israelí para dividir a los palestinos y socavar la legitimidad del grupo”, dijo a TN el analista Jairo Lugo-Ocando, decano de la Facultad de Comunicación de la Universidad de Sharjah en los Emiratos Árabes Unidos. Yasser Abu Shabab, líder de las Fuerzas Populares de Gaza (Foto: Facebook/The Israel Times)
En concreto, muy poco se sabe sobre esta milicia, creada tras la invasión israelí. Entonces, Abu Shabab estaba detenido en una prisión de Hamas acusado de narcotráfico. Si bien se desconoce cómo logro salir de la cárcel, poco después, en mayo de 2024, conformó las Fuerzas Populares.
Según The Israel Times, el jefe del grupo, de 32 años, es miembro de un gran clan del sur de Gaza vinculado en el pasado a operaciones de contrabando con yihadistas egipcios.
El grupo está conformado por 300 hombres. La prensa israelí dijo que la mayoría fue reclutado por el servicio de inteligencia de la Autoridad Nacional Palestina (ANP), que gobierna en las zonas no ocupadas de Cisjordania y es el gran enemigo político interno de Hamas.
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El gobierno israelí, según la prensa local, le entregó fusiles Kalashnikov incautados a Hamas durante la guerra para que luchen contra el grupo islámico que controla el enclave y aún mantiene secuestrados a 53 rehenes desde el 7 de octubre de 2023.
Desde la oposición, el exministro Liberman sacó la carta del terrorismo. “Están entregando armas a criminales que se identifican con el Estado Islámico”, alertó.
Qué está pasando en el sur de Gaza
Las Fuerzas Populares de Abu Shabab están llamando a la población a trasladarse al este de Rafah, en el sur de Gaza, una zona vetada por el ejército israelí, para recibir comida, medicamentos y refugio que entran al enclave como ayuda humanitaria. En las últimas semanas, en el área murieron decenas de palestinos baleados cuando iban a buscar comida. Hamas y el ejército israelí se acusan mutuamente de las matanzas.
“En la neblina que crea la guerra, la información no es tan clara. Las Fuerzas Populares se han comenzado a levantar como una alternativa de Hamas y están recibiendo un apoyo popular muy rápido de mucha gente porque está operando en una zona (del sur de Gaza) donde están los refugiados y los están protegiendo”, dijo Lugo-Ocando.
Pero hay muchos puntos oscuros. Abu Shabab fue acusado por Hamas y ONG de saquear camiones con ayuda internacional en la zona cercana al cruce fronterizo de Kerem Shalon, mientras supuestamente las fuerzas israelíes observaban sin intervenir.
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“El robo de ayuda desde el comienzo de la guerra ha sido llevado a cabo por bandas criminales, bajo la vigilancia de las fuerzas israelíes, y se les permitió operar cerca del punto de cruce de Kerem Shalom hacia Gaza”, dijo Jonathan Whittall, jefe de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas para la Coordinación de Asuntos Humanitarios (OCHA) en los territorios palestinos ocupados.
Whitehall dijo que entre esas bandas se hallaba el grupo de Abu Shabab.
Pero el jefe de la milicia lo niega. “Mis actividades son humanitarias y solo para mi gente. Brindamos seguridad en zonas controladas por nuestras fuerzas nacionales y brindamos apoyo a cientos de familias, y cientos de personas acuden a nuestras zonas cada día”, dijo, citado por The Guardian. Palestinos cargan bolsas de alimentos entregados como ayuda humanitaria en el sur de Gaza (Foto: REUTERS/Hatem Khaled)
A pesar de la viralización de videos en los que se ven a sus milicianos operar junto a soldados israelíes, afirmó: “No trabajamos directamente con el ejército israelí”.
Hamas le tiene reservada una bala. Lo llaman el “agente israelí” o, directamente, “el traidor”. De hecho, su brazo armado, las Brigadas Al-Qassam, comenzó a llevar a cabo asesinatos directos contra miembros del grupo.
“Las Fuerzas Populares tienen vinculaciones con redes muy fuertes en Egipto que están apoyando la resistencia”, dijo Lugo-Ocando.
El temor final es que la lucha interna palestina desemboque en una guerra civil.
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Trump to host roundtable on efforts to thwart cartels, human trafficking operations

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Mexican Senator Lilly Téllez joins ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to discuss growing tensions between President Trump and Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro as the U.S. boosts its military presence in the region to target drug boats and cartels.
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FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump will host a roundtable at the White House Thursday afternoon with law enforcement and administration officials to discuss the successes of the Homeland Security Task Forces, which the president established on his first day in office to snuff out threats from criminal cartels in the U.S.
«The President’s Homeland Security Task Forces are a landmark achievement that highlight what the federal government can achieve with a leader like President Trump who is willing to slash red tape, increase coordination and put the safety of the American people first,» White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital of the event.
«In a short period of time, the Trump Administration has removed lethal drugs, illegal weapons, dangerous foreign terrorists and cartel members from American communities,» she added. «The American people are safer today because of the HSTFs — and they’re just getting started.»
Trump established the creation of Homeland Security Task Forces Jan. 20 — his first day back in office — via executive order, «Protecting the American People from Invasion.» The executive order directed Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to establish such task forces in each state as part of the administration’s efforts to thwart cartels and human trafficking networks operating on U.S. soil.
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President Donald Trump is slated to hold a roundtable with administration officials to discuss updates on the Homeland Security Task Forces. ( Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The executive order specifically directed the task forces to «end the presence of criminal cartels, foreign gangs, and transnational criminal organizations throughout the United States, dismantle cross-border human smuggling and trafficking networks, end the scourge of human smuggling and trafficking, with a particular focus on such offenses involving children, and ensure the use of all available law enforcement tools to faithfully execute the immigration laws of the United States.»
On Thursday, administration officials will join Trump to provide updates on the task forces’ efforts.
The roundtable will be joined by Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller, Noem, Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, FBI Director Kash Patel and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Fox News Digital learned.
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A January executive order directed Attorney General Pam Bondi, here, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to establish such task forces in each state as part of the administration’s efforts to thwart cartels and human trafficking networks operating on U.S. soil. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital learned that the task forces nationwide became fully operational at the end of August and have yielded thousands of arrests, and the removal of dangerous drugs and illegal firearms from U.S. streets.
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More than 3,000 foreign terrorists and cartel members were arrested as part of the task forces’ operations, including members of notoriously dangerous gangs such as the Sinaloa Cartel, MS-13 and Cartel Jalisco Nuevo Genaracion, Fox News Digital learned.

President Donald Trump will host a roundtable at the White House Oct. 23, 2025, with law enforcement and administration officials, like Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. (Mark Schiefelbein/The Associated Press)
The task forces also have recovered two million fentanyl pills and seven tons of other deadly narcotics, seized $3 million in currency and removed more than 1,000 illegal guns from U.S. communities.
Trump campaigned, in part, on removing violent illegal immigrants and crime from U.S. communities, spotlighting the efforts in his address before Congress back in March 2025.
«The territory to the immediate south of our border is now dominated entirely by criminal cartels that murder, rape, torture and exercise total control. They have total control over a whole nation. posing a grave threat to our national security,» Trump said at the time. «The cartels are waging war in America, and it’s time for America to wage war on the cartels.»
The roundtable comes as the U.S. military carries out strikes on suspected drug cartel vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. The strikes began in September and are part of Trump’s broader effort to dismantle transnational cartels by force.
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Trump held a similar roundtable at the White House earlier in October, inviting independent journalists who have experienced Antifa’s violence firsthand to speak about their experiences as the administration targets the left-wing group’s protests outside immigration facilities and recently designating it a «domestic terrorist organization.»
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Maine Dem Senate hopeful backed by Bernie Sanders apologizes for Nazi-style tattoo, vows to stay in race

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Maine Democrat Graham Platner, a first-time Senate candidate backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., says he has covered up a tattoo widely recognized as a Nazi symbol after critics unearthed old social media posts and demanded he quit the race.
Platner’s campaign is facing intense scrutiny after it was revealed he once had a skull-and-crossbones tattoo resembling the Totenkopf used by Hitler’s SS paramilitary forces.
Platner said he got the tattoo in 2007 during a «night of drinking» while on leave in Croatia in the Marine Corps and claimed he did not know its historical associations at the time. He has since covered the image with another tattoo.
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In a video posted to Instagram Wednesday afternoon, Platner elaborated that the design was chosen from a flash tattoo wall while «carousing» with fellow Marines in Split, Croatia.
«We thought it looked cool,» he said.
He claimed he had «lived a life dedicated to anti-fascism, anti-racism and anti-Nazism» and was «appalled» to learn it resembled a hate symbol.
Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, points to a covered tattoo that had previously been an image recognized as a Nazi symbol, during an interview Wednesday in Portland, Maine. (WGME via AP)
Platner said he had never been questioned about the tattoo during his service and passed Army background checks.
He told The Associated Press he chose to cover rather than remove the tattoo due to a lack of removal services near his home in rural Maine.
«Going to a tattoo removal place is going to take a while,» Platner said. «I wanted this thing off my body.»
In the video, Platner said he had the symbol inked over with a Celtic knot and imagery of dogs, a tribute to his family pets.
«This far more represents who I am now than even the skull and crossbones did,» he said, lifting his shirt to reveal the new tattoo.
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U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, D-Maine, speaks at a town hall at the Franco Center Oct. 15, in Lewiston, Maine. (Libby Kenny/Sun Journal via AP)
The controversy comes on the heels of deleted Reddit posts in which Platner appeared to mock military sexual assault victims, criticize police and make racially-charged comments about tipping.
Platner since apologized and blamed the posts on depression and PTSD after his military service in Afghanistan. He has vowed to stay in the race and has the backing of Sanders.
Jordan Wood, a Democratic rival in the primary and former chief of staff to Rep. Katie Porter, is calling on Platner to drop out.
«Graham Platner’s Reddit comments and Nazi SS Totenkopf tattoo are disqualifying and not who we are as Mainers or as Democrats,» Wood said in a statement. «With Donald Trump and his sycophants demonizing Americans, spewing hate and running roughshod over the Constitution, Democrats need to be able to condemn Trump’s actions with moral clarity. Graham Platner no longer can.»
Platner said he believes the controversy is part of his life story, not disqualifying.

U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, D-Maine, acknowledges a large crowd during a town hall Sept. 25, in Portland, Maine. (Daryn Slover/Portland Press Herald via AP)
«I don’t look at this as a liability. I look at this as a life that I have lived, a journey that has been difficult, that has been full of struggle, that has also gotten me to where I am today,» Platner told the AP. «And I’m very proud of who I am.»
He blamed «establishment» forces for amplifying the backlash to derail his campaign.
«Every second we spend talking about a tattoo I got in the Marine Corps is a second we don’t talk about Medicare for all,» Platner said in the video.
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He is running in a packed Democratic primary against Wood and two-term Gov. Janet Mills.
GOP Sen. Susan Collins, who has held the seat for three decades, has not yet commented on the controversy.
Sanders and Collins did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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