collaborators and killers
Hamas executes five Palestinians in Gaza
09/04/2022, 12:45 p.m
The radical Islamic Hamas has five death sentences carried out in the Gaza Strip – two of them for collaborating with Israel, three for murder. Some of the crimes go back several decades. But treason does not become statute-barred in the autonomous regions.
Radical Islamist Hamas has executed five people in the Gaza Strip. Two of the men were convicted of collaborating with Israel and three of murder, according to the Hamas-controlled Interior Ministry. Three of the convicts were reportedly hanged and two shot. They were the first executions in Gaza in more than five years.
The Interior Ministry only gave the initials, years of birth and places of birth of the executed, not their full names. The two men who were executed for collaborating with Israel were born in 1968 and 1978 respectively.
The older of the two men was sentenced to death for providing Israel with information in 1991 about Palestinian militants, their whereabouts and the location of rocket launchers. The second man was reportedly shot dead by a firing squad. In 2001, he passed secret information to Israel that led to targeted attacks by the Israeli army and the deaths of the people attacked.
Most recently executed death sentences in 2017
In recent years, the Gaza Strip judiciary has sentenced to death several people convicted of “collaboration” with Israel and other crimes. The last death sentences were carried out in May 2017. At that time, three Palestinians were publicly executed in a square in Gaza. They were sentenced to death in a summary trial by military courts for the killing of a senior Hamas commander.
Hamas is the second largest Palestinian organization after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah. It violently seized sole power in the Gaza Strip in 2007 and is classified as a terrorist organization by the US, the EU and Israel.