Human rights organizations call on Hamas to halt death sentences against Israeli agents, drug dealers
The military judiciary in the Gaza Strip announced this month new death sentences against collaborators with Israel and drug dealers, amid calls by human rights organizations to stop these illegal and nonhumanitarian sentences.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The military judiciary in the Gaza Strip announced Nov. 9, in a statement published on the Ministry of Interior and National Security website, that it had issued death sentences against three Palestinians. Two of them were convicted of collaboration with Israel and the third of drug trafficking.
The rulings raised the number of death sentences rendered since the beginning of the year to about 20, amid calls by human rights organizations to permanently abolish the death penalty.
The military court clarified in its statement that “the rulings issued by the military court are based on the indictment and the articles of the Revolutionary Penal Code of 1979.”
On Oct. 28, the military court in Gaza also sentenced six Palestinian informants with Israel to death. It urged them to surrender themselves to the judicial authorities to benefit from a reduced sentence.
