As civilized people, it’s sometimes hard for us to fathom the utter barbarity of which other – well, I hesitate to use the term human, so let’s say other members of our species – are capable. Some of us have been to other parts of the world where barbarity is commonplace, and we still have a hard time wrapping our civilized minds around it.

Case in point: After Israel resumed ground operations in Gaza after Hamas balked at giving back the few remaining hostages, some brave Gazans took to the streets to protest Hamas’s continued rule. 

Here’s what happened to one of them.

Hamas thugs fatally tortured a young Palestinian man protesting their rule — and left his body on his family’s doorstep in a sick warning to other foes in the Gaza Strip, according to police.

Uday Al Rabay, 22, was beaten for four hours and died after he participated in an anti-Hamas protest in the Palestinian territories last week, said a senior officer affiliated with the opposition Fatah party.

“Uday was martyred by the criminals of Hamas. And what’s his crime? He told the truth, because he refused to be silent on injustice, because he did not kneel to Hamas,” said Mazen Shat, a police officer tied to Fatah, to the Telegraph.

The victim’s body was left swollen and bloody in the attack, according to pictures purportedly of Uday that were shared on the messaging app Telegram.

Please note that this young man was not only a Gazan, he was what you would presume Hamas would think of as one of their own – a young man, presumably a Muslim himself. And they beat him to death and left his body for his family to find.

Utter savagery.