Sun 04 September 2022:
On Sunday, the Hamas movement in control of the Gaza Strip announced that it had executed five Palestinians, two of whom had been charged with “collaboration” with Israel.
“On Sunday morning, the death sentence was carried out against two condemned over collaboration with the occupation (Israel), and three others in criminal cases,” Hamas said in a statement. It added that the defendants had previously been given “their full rights to defend themselves.”
The initials and years of birth of the five Palestinians who were executed by Hamas were supplied, but not their full names. Two men who were hanged for “collaborating” with Israel were born in 1978 and 1968, respectively.
The oldest of the two lived in Khan Yunis, a city in the southern part of the Gaza Strip that is under blockade. According to Hamas, he was found guilty of giving Israel “information on men of the resistance, their domicile… and the location of rocket launchpads” in 1991.
According to the statement, the second was criticised for providing Israel with information in 2001 “that resulted in the targeting and death of residents” by Israeli soldiers.
The announcement claimed that the three other people who were executed on Sunday had all been found guilty of murder.
While Hamas keeps the death penalty on the statute books, Palestinian officials in the occupied West Bank have not carried any out in recent years.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, seated in the West Bank city of Ramallah, has signed up to the United Nations’ treaty opposing the death penalty.
Abbas’s Fatah movement and Hamas have been divided since fighting broke out between them in 2007.
The Palestinian Authority operates in the West Bank, home to nearly three million Palestinians who live alongside 475,000 Israeli settlers.
Hamas, meanwhile, rules over 2.3 million Palestinians living under a crippling Israeli-led blockade for 15 years.
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