Gaza Herald: An investigative exposé has uncovered fresh details surrounding the assassination of a senior resistance security figure in Gaza, revealing that the killing was carried out by armed collaborators acting under direct orders from Israeli intelligence.
According to the findings, two gunmen linked to a militia headed by Shouqi Abu Nseira, a former officer in the Palestinian Authority security forces, were dispatched on the morning of December 14 to execute the targeted operation in coordination with Israeli handlers.
The victim was Ahmad Abdel Bari Zamzam, widely known as “Abu al-Majd,” the deputy director of the Internal Security Service in Gaza’s central governorate. Israeli intelligence reportedly referred to him by the codename “the Mechanic.” The investigation indicates that Abu al-Majd played a central role in tracking and dismantling armed collaboration networks during and after Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. He was said to have successfully penetrated several militias operating within the so-called buffer zone and convinced multiple collaborators to surrender.
In an exclusive investigation conducted by journalist Tamer Al-Misshal, Al Jazeera obtained body-camera footage worn by one of the assassins. The footage shows that the gunmen were trained in areas located behind the buffer zone under Israeli military control. One collaborator told investigators that Saeed Abu Sitta and Nasser Abu Sitta instructed him to remain armed at all times and to open fire whenever orders were received, instructions he said he accepted.
One of the images captured shows the second gunman inside the militia’s headquarters at Al-Azmi School in the Al-Mazra’a area of central Gaza, confirming that both assailants moved through zones under Israeli control. The collaborator testified that on December 10, he met Abu Adham Nseira, who selected him and another individual for the mission. The pair were reportedly taken through the Kissufim crossing to meet an Israeli intelligence officer known as Abu Omar, before being transported to the Kissufim military base, where they received training on Glock pistols and suppressors.
The investigation further revealed that Israeli drones and quadcopters monitored the route ahead of the assassins, directing their movements via the Israeli officer, who was receiving a live video feed from the body camera attached to the collaborator. Shortly before the killing, an unforeseen encounter nearly derailed the operation, but the assassination ultimately went ahead. During the withdrawal, communication between the gunmen and their Israeli handler was suddenly severed.
This loss of contact led to the arrest of the collaborator carrying the camera, who had reportedly been recruited only a month earlier. The second gunman escaped into areas under Israeli military control. In his confession, reviewed by investigators, the detained collaborator admitted belonging to the militia, stating that it comprised approximately 50 armed members. He said the group gathered intelligence on resistance tunnel networks and carried out assassinations of individuals sought by Israel’s internal security agency, Shin Bet.
The testimony also implicated the militia in looting humanitarian aid convoys, luring wanted individuals into surrender before handing them over to Israeli forces, and abducting and desecrating the bodies of fallen Palestinians, all under the protection of Israeli troops and continuous drone surveillance.
These disclosures expose a concealed intelligence war unfolding inside Gaza, where recruitment, infiltration, and coercion converge into targeted killings executed by local collaborators operating under the direct supervision of Israeli intelligence officers and unmanned aerial systems.
