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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.
Head of the military court, Nasser Suleiman, speaks to the press after a Gaza court sentenced three men to death over the assassination of a Hamas military commander that the Islamist movement accused Israel of masterminding, Gaza City, Gaza Strip, May 21, 2017.

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.

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