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Hamas sentences Gazan to death for ‘spying for Israel’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA Hamas military court in the Gaza Strip sentences a Palestinian to death for allegedly providing information to Israel said to have led to Palestinians being killed, judicial sources say.
The 28-year-old man is identified only by the initials N.A. and no other details on the accusations against him are provided by Hamas, the Islamist movement that rules the Palestinian territory, which has seen three wars with Israel in six years.
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, 157 people have been sentenced to death in the occupied territories since the creation of the Palestinian Authority in 1994.
Thirty-two have been executed, including 30 in the Gaza Strip.
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