Hamas Sentences 7 Gazans to Death over Israel 'Collaboration'

Seven death sentences — and seven times life imprisonment with forced labor: Hamas is taking brutal action against its opponents in the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, violence is escalating in the West Bank and Israel.

Hamas Sentences 7 People to Death Over ‘Collaboration’ With Israel

The Gaza Strip military court on Sunday sentenced seven people to death and another seven to “life imprisonment with hard labor” for alleged “collaboration" with Israel, the local interior ministry said. Under Palestinian law, a death sentence requires the approval of the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. However, since the Hamas terrorist

7 Gazans Sentenced to Death for ‘Collaboration’ with Israel

Those who were condemned to die allegedly were paid by Israel to provide names, phone numbers, addresses and sites of weapon caches belonging to Gaza terrorists.

Hamas sentences 7 Gazans to death over Israel 'collaboration'

Under Palestinian law, a death sentence requires the approval of the president of the Palestinian Authority which is headquartered in the occupied West Bank. But since Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007 it has repeatedly ignored this, and last September executed two Palestinians for “collaboration” with Israel as well as three others for murder.

Hamas sentences 7 Gazans to death by hanging for ‘collaboration’ with Israel

Defendants accused of providing information about terror group members in return for cash, other benefits

A military court in the Gaza Strip has sentenced seven people to death, accused of collaborating with Israel. Seven more defendants are sentenced to lifetime criminal labor, which in Gaza usually equates to 25 years of prison custody, according to the enclave's Interior Department. Gaza is controlled by the militant Hamas movement and the military court has recurring out...