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PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY: HAMAS EXECUTES FORMER B'TSELEM FIELD WORKER
January 7, 2009: a Palestinian human rights
activist and journalist who used to work for the Israeli human rights
organization B'Tselem was executed in Rafah by Hamas on charges of
"collaboration" with Israel.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip identified the man as Haidar Ghanem,
46, of Rafah.
Ghanem, who was a field researcher for
B'Tselem, was sentenced to death by a Palestinian Authority court in 2002 after
being found guilty of passing on information to Israel that later resulted in
the elimination of Fatah gunmen. The PA state security court had sentenced
Ghanem, a father of two, after holding only two brief sessions. He was
convicted of helping Israel
kill four Fatah activists in Rafah. (Sources: Jerusalem Post, 25/01/2009)
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