PALESTINE: HAMAS EXECUTES 4 MORE SUSPECTED ISRAELI SPIES

August 25, 2014: Hamas continued with its executions of “collaborators,” killing 4 more Palestinians suspected of spying for Israel.
Masked Hamas militants fatally shot the Palestinians in the courtyard of a mosque in the Jabaliya refugee camp on charges of spying for the enemy. Hamas-affiliated Al-Majd website quoted security sources as saying that the 4 were executed in a “revolutionary” way after “legal measures were completed.”
The executions raise the total number of Palestinian “suspects” paraded to their deaths to 25; 18 of them were executed on 22 and 3 on 21 August.
The Palestinian Authority (PA), which controls the West Bank, denounced the executions of alleged collaborators, calling them “extrajudicial.” The PA President’s office condemned Hamas for failing to abide by existing legal procedures for dealing with the cases. Although collaboration with Israel is punishable by death in the Palestinian legal code, President Mahmoud Abbas has maintained a moratorium on the death penalty since 2005. (Sources: Firstpost.com, 25/08/2014)