Agencies – Gaza Post
Hamas executes five Palestinians, two for ‘collaborating’ with Israel
Five Palestinians found guilty of collaboration with Israel and murder were executed in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Sunday morning.
A statement published by the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Interior said that two men were executed by firing squad and hanging on charges of collaboration with Israel.
The statement did not identify the men by name.
Death sentences are supposed to be approved by the Palestinian Authority president in accordance with Palestinian law. But Hamas, which has been controlling the Gaza Strip since 2007, has carried out executions in the past without seeking such approval.
The Ministry of Interior said that one of the convicts, a 44-year-old resident of Gaza City, was arrested on October 30, 2009, on charges of “communicating with hostile foreign parties” and working for Israeli intelligence since 2001.
According to the ministry, the man provided Israel with information that led to the killing of Palestinians.
The second man accused of collaboration with Israel was a 54-year-old resident of Khan Yunis. Hamas claimed that the convict, who was arrested on February 15, 2015, was recruited as an informant in 1991.
He was accused of providing the Israeli security forces with information about members of Hamas and other armed groups, including their places of residence and their jobs, as well as the locations for launching and manufacturing rockets.
The third man, a 43-year-old resident of Gaza City, has been in jail since 2004. He was found guilty of kidnapping and murder of a woman. In 2009, he managed to escape from prison and committed another murder.
The fourth, a 30-year-old resident of the northern Gaza Strip, was arrested on October 30, 2013, on charges of robbery and murder.
The two were executed by hanging.
The fifth man, a 26-year-old from the northern Gaza Strip, was executed by firing squad. He was arrested on July 14, 2022, for murdering a man and a girl and injuring 11 others during a family dispute. The man was said to be a member of Hamas’s security forces.
