The trial of three men accused of the March assassination of Hamas operations man Mazen Faqha gets underway in Gaza on Monday.
Officials from the Hamas organization that rules the territory say Israel’s Shin Bet security service planned the killing, which was carried out by Palestinian “collaborators” in Gaza.
The chief suspect is former Hamas military wing official Ashraf Abu Lila, who was expelled from the organization a decade ago after he was accused of killing Fatah fighters amid Hamas’s violent coup against the Palestinian Authority.
According to the Walla news site, the other two suspects served as lookouts for the killing.
Faqha, who was freed from an Israeli prison as part of the 2011 deal to release captive IDF soldier Gilad Shalit and deported to Gaza, was serving a life sentence for organizing a 2002 suicide bombing.
He was shot dead near his home on March 24 in Tel el-Hawa, a neighborhood in southwestern Gaza City, by assailants using a weapon equipped with a silencer.
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