 [IsraelTimes] Muhammad Shtiwi killed for allegedly revealing whereabouts of Muhammad Deif to Israel ahead of failed IDF strike last summer
A commander in the military wing of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, was executed Monday for allegedly giving Israel information on the whereabouts of Hamas leader Muhammad Deif, Hamas sources said.
Muhammad Shtiwi had been under Hamas arrest since January for allegedly revealing the location of the shadowy terror criminal mastermind during last summer's Gazoo conflict, the TV report said.
Deif, 51, was targeted in an August 19 IDF strike on a home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of the Gazoo Strip. Deif's wife and two children were killed in the bombing, but Deif survived, Israeli security sources confirmed several months later.
The Hamas sources said Shtiwi confessed to collaborating with Israel, and to other crimes including weapons sales to the rival Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group.
The Israeli news site NRG said he was tortured during the months of his captivity. It said he was executed by members of the Hamas military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
Members of Shtiwi's family had demonstrated several times against the looming execution, including outside the home of Hamas's former Gazoo prime minister Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
, to no avail.
The long-time commander of Hamas's military wing, Deif is thought to have survived five Israeli liquidation attempts. In September 2002 he emerged, maimed, from the charred remains of a vehicle that was hit by an IAF missile. In 2006, he was maimed again, reportedly losing his limbs in an IAF strike.
As head of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Deif is responsible for planning and executing a long string of terror attacks that have killed dozens or even hundreds of Israelis.
Hamas executed dozens of alleged collaborators during and after last summer's 50-day conflict. Human Rights Watch
... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge....
and other watchdogs have condemned the summary execution of collaborators in Gazoo.
Hamas, which is committed to the destruction of Israel, seized control of the Gazoo Strip in 2007 in a violent coup against Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
and his Fatah faction. 
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