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Hamas court sentences to death 4 Gazans for collaborating with Israel

Xinhua, January 13, 2016 Adjust font size:

A Hamas military court in the Gaza Strip sentenced to death four Palestinians convicted for being collaborators with Israel in absentia, a senior judiciary official said Wednesday.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Gaza-based al-Rai news agency that three of the convicted had fled the Gaza Strip several years ago, while the fourth one is still in Gaza.

The court charged the four Palestinians of passing security data to the Israeli intelligence security related to the movement of militants targeted and killed in Israeli air strikes.

The military court has been controlled by Hamas since the Islamic movement's violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in 2007. Since then it sentenced to death 14 Palestinians over similar charges.

According to the basic Palestinian law, issuing an execution sentence against any Palestinian by any court has to be approved by the President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).

Since the beginning of the internal Palestinian split, Hamas hasn't been coordinating the execution of Palestinian collaborators with Abbas or with the PNA judiciary system in the West Bank. Endit