The armed Islamist movement Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip, executed five Palestinians this Sunday morning, two of them for “collaboration” with Israel, for the first time in about five years.
“On Sunday morning, the death penalty sentence was carried out against two convicted of collaborating with the occupation (name given by this movement to Israel, Ed) and three others in criminal cases,” Hamas said in a statement, saying that those convicted “had previously obtained their full right to defend themselves” before the local courts.
The Ministry of the Interior of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory under the control of Hamas after 2007, with four details on the chacun des condamnés, more than once identified the five people executed who were content to have four initial letters, années or lieu of birth
Two men executed for providing ‘information’ to Israel on Hamas
The two people executed for “collaboration” with Israel are two men, born in 1968 and 1978 respectively.
The older of the two, who was “hanged”, had been sentenced by local courts for having provided Israel since 1991 with “information on the members of the resistance, their places of residence” and on “the location of the manufacturing sites and rocket fire, Hamas said.
The second, who was “shot”, for his part was convicted of having provided Israel since 2001 “information” that “led to the attack and martyrdom (death, editor’s note) of citizens” by Israeli forces, Hamas continued, without naming the people who would have died as a result of this possible information leak.
The other three people executed had been previously convicted of murder, the Hamas Interior Ministry said in its statement.
First known executions since 2017
In recent years, the Gaza authorities have sentenced a number of people to death for various crimes or “collaboration” with Israel, but these sentences have not been carried out, with the last known executions dating back to 2017.
Three Palestinians – Ashraf Abu Leila, Hisham al-Aloul and Abdallah al-Nachar – had been executed in public after being convicted in a lightning trial by local military courts for having participated in the murder of a Hamas commander, Mazen Faqha, ” the name of Israel.”
Hamas had justified these executions, like that of the two Palestinians assassinated on Sunday for “collaboration” with Israel, based on the Revolutionary Code of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Hamas is not, however, a member of the PLO, whose revolutionary code no longer conforms to the 2003 Palestinian Basic Law on this issue. And Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority had joined the UN treaty in 2019 to abolish the capital. punishment. But since the clashes in 2007 between Islamist Hamas and Mahmoud Abbas’s secular Fatah, the Palestinian territories have been divided politically.
The Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas, based in the occupied West Bank, where 2.9 million Palestinians live, has no control over the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian enclave of 2.3 million inhabitants in the hands of Hamas and under a strict blockade Israeli for 15 years.
Source: BFM TV
