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Hamas sentences two drug dealers to death
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA Hamas military court sentences two Palestinians to death for drug dealing, in the first such case since the terror group seized the Gaza Strip a decade ago.
The Interior Ministry says Sunday that one would be killed by a firing squad. The other defendant is sentenced in absentia.
The ministry says security forces seized $2 million in illicit drugs in January alone, which was equivalent to what was seized in all of 2016. Most of the seized drugs were narcotics and cannabis.
Hamas has issued and implemented capital punishment mostly against people found guilty of murder or of collaborating with Israel. These verdicts were the first against drug dealers.
— Agencies
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