The Human Rights Watch organization condemns the executions of three men in the Gaza Strip who were accused by Hamas of collaborating with Israel, calling on the Islamist group to stop the “barbaric” practice.
The executions were carried out after Hamas vowed revenge for the mysterious killing of one of its commanders last month, which it blames on the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and its Palestinian “collaborators.”
The men who were hanged this morning were not implicated in his killing but were accused of past acts of “treason and collaborating,” a Hamas interior ministry statement says.
“The abhorrent executions by Hamas authorities of three men in Gaza deemed to be collaborators project weakness, not strength,” Human Rights Watch says in a statement.
“Hamas authorities will never achieve true security or stability through firing squads or by the gallows, but rather through respect for international norms and the rule of law.”
— AFP
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