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Hamas hangs 3 Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel
[Ynet] The three men were hanged in a Hamas cop shoppe in Gazoo after being sentenced to death for undisclosed acts of 'collaboration' with Israel; executions are not connected to Mazan Fukha liquidation.Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", hanged three Paleostinians accused of collaborating with Israel Thursday morning. The three were sentenced to death before the liquidation of Mazan Fukha and have no connection to Hamas's pursuit of those responsible. The three executed prisoners were identified as a 55-year-old man from Khan Yunis, a 30-year-old man from Gazoo City and a 42-year-old man whose place of residence was not disclosed. The executions come a day after Hamas's attorney general announced that executions of collaborators would be carried out, trying to instill fear of cooperation with Israel among the strip's residents. At the end of last week, the Interior Ministry in Gazoo announced that the security services were facing a major operation against collaborators in the investigation of the liquidation of Fukha. Such operations often do not come with prior warnings, and it seems that Hamas was trying to shake things up to identify potential avenues for the escape of the assassin(s), despite the slight chance that they could still be found inside the strip. The terrorist organization apparently has no leads as to the identity of the perpetrators or their collaborators. One day after the announcement of an operation against the collaborators, the Interior Ministry issued a statement saying that it was opening a kind of system of pardons for the collaborators with Israel, and called on them to surrender within a week and receive security and legal protection. It is quite possible that Hamas will place the blame on innocents who will have to confess to things they have not done, only to broadcast victory, even if it is a false one.
On Thursday the interior ministry announced the measures had been eased. Human Rights Watch Slams 'Barbaric' Hamas Executions [An Nahar] Human Rights Watch condemned Thursday's executions of three men in the Gazoo Strip who were accused by Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", of collaborating with Israel, calling on the Islamist group to stop the "barbaric" practice. "The abhorrent executions by Hamas authorities of three men in Gazoo deemed to be collaborators project weakness, not strength," Human Rights Watch said in a statement. "Hamas authorities will never achieve true security or stability through firing squads or by the gallows, but rather through respect for international norms and the rule of law." It cited data from the Gazoo-based Paleostinian Centre for Human Rights as saying that the Islamist group had now executed a total of 25 Paleostinians since seizing power in the Gazoo Strip in 2007. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-04-07 |
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