One disturbing clip shows two men being brutally beaten after being dragged across the ground by what Israel claims are masked Hamas militants.
They can be seen crying out in pain as they hold their arms out in front of their faces in an attempt to protect themselves from being beaten. A crowd of attackers soon swarmed around the pair, raising their weapons and pointing their guns in their direction.
One man, who appears to have a black sack over his head, is seen writhing on the ground in agony with his hands bound with rope behind his back as the attackers smash bars across his kneecaps with force.
As he squirms on the dusty road after being dumped beside a vehicle, three men donning black masks repeatedly beat him with long, thick sticks.
They drag him again and throw him next to another civilian, who is also tied-up, before beating them both and shooting at their knees.
At least one of the men appeared to be hit by a bullet, and just a moment later, one of the alleged Hamas enforcers steps on the head of of a captive, crushing his face into the dirt.
In another clip, a topless man can be seen being dragged by his bound wrists face-down through a crowd by two masked men.
Barefoot and only wearing a pair of tracksuit pants, he is dropped onto the ground before being kicked by at least four enforcers carrying weapons.
He soon starts being beaten by the group who smash down their bars across his half-naked body.
The victim appears to barely react, his limp body taking the blows as he lays on the sandy floor at the feet of the alleged Hamas militants.
The horrific clips have emerged just a week after disturbing footage circulated online showing several Palestinians being executed by Hamas.
In the clip, which made its rounds on social media on October 14, a group of men can be seen kneeling on the ground with their hands behind their backs.
Armed militants - some wearing Hamas-style headbands - stand behind the victims with their faces covered before gunshots ring out and the seven kneeling men fall to the ground, apparently lifeless.
Cheering crowds scream 'Allah Akbar,' or 'God is great', and brand the executed men 'collaborators' while filming the scenes on their phones.
A Hamas source confirmed the authenticity of the video.
The execution video has sparked concern among observers, coming just days after a Trump-brokered peace deal came into effect.
The video was shared along with the caption: 'Hamas takes advantage of the truce with Israel and eliminates internal opponents, does anyone believe in this peace?'
Gaza's fragile ceasefire was left hanging by a thread on Sunday after Israel bombed the territory again in response to Hamas killing two of its soldiers.
Israel also announced it was suspending the transfer of humanitarian aid to Gaza until further notice, following Hamas's 'blatant violation of the agreement', but this was restored Monday.
Gaza hospitals sources claimed 44 people were killed in the Israeli air strikes on Sunday, as per the BBC. However, Israel said it would resume its enforcement of the ceasefire.
The bombings came after Hamas attacked Israeli soldiers situated behind the agreed yellow line of control 'at least three' times.
In one of these incidents, in Rafah, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said 'a cell of terror operatives emerged from a tunnel and fired RPGs at an excavator' that was clearing Hamas infrastructure.
The two troops killed in the attack, were Major Yaniv Kula, 26, and Staff Sergeant Itay Yavetz, 21. Another soldier was wounded.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered 'firm action' in response to the ceasefire violations.
Hamas has since denied it was responsible for the three incidents.
In an update on Sunday night, an IDF official said: 'Hamas has repeatedly violated its terms, escalating its brutality against Gazans and continuing to hold the bodies of 16 of our hostages. Videos have circulated showing Hamas hunting down and publicly executing Gazans in broad daylight.
'In accordance with the directive of the political echelon, the transfer of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip has been halted until further notice.'
The ceasefire agreement committed Israel to allowing 600 aid trucks into Gaza every day. Even before Sunday night's suspension it had already halved the number following Hamas's failure to return all the deceased hostages in time.
However, the UN World Food Programme said on Tuesday that supplies into Gaza were ramping up after the ceasefire but were still far short of its daily target of 2,000 tons because only two crossings are open, and none to the famine-hit north of the enclave.
Around 750 metric tons of food are now entering the Gaza Strip daily, according to the WFP, but this was still well below the scale of needs after two years of conflict between Israel and Hamas that has reduced much of Gaza to ruins.
'To be able to get to this scale-up, we have to use every border crossing point right now,' WFP spokesperson Abeer Etefa told a Geneva press briefing.
She said only two of the Israeli-controlled crossings into Gaza were operational - Kerem Shalom in the south and Kissufim in the centre.
The ceasefire plan brokered by US President Donald Trump envisages 'full aid' being sent into Gaza.
An Israeli security official said that humanitarian aid continues to enter through the Kerem Shalom crossing and additional crossings in accordance with the plan, without naming them.
Netanyahu said on Saturday the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt will remain closed until further notice, with its reopening dependent on Hamas handing over bodies of deceased hostages.
Many Gazans were storing the food they are receiving because they are afraid that supplies might again dry up.
'They eat part of it, and they ration and keep some of the supplies for an emergency, because they are not very confident how long the ceasefire will last and what will happen next,' Etefa said.
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