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| Hamas tells ‘collaborators’ to turn selves in amid hunt for assassins |
| 2017-04-05 |
| [IsraelTimes] Offering amnesty, Gazoo terror group says campaign underway to pursue ’agents’ for Israel after killing of terror commander Mazen Faqha. Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", said on Tuesday it would offer amnesty to Gazook "agents" for Israel if they turned themselves in to the security forces over the next week. The offer comes amid a crackdown by Hamas on "collaborators" with the Israeli army following the recent liquidation of one of its terror chiefs, Mazen Faqha, which it blames on Israel. "For the sake of national and social responsibility, the interior and national security ministry will open the door of repentance to those who have fallen victim to the occupation and its intelligence services," a statement by the Hamas-run Gazoo interior ministry said, alluding to the idea that some Gazooks are coerced by the Israeli army to work for it. The "door of repentance" will be open for just one week starting Tuesday, the statement said. The statement calls on "collaborators" to turn themselves in to the "nearest person in direct relationship with the security services." Those who do turn themselves in, the ministry said, "will be provided legal and security protection and their cases will be handled with complete confidentiality and outside of the security headquarters." Those who do not turn themselves in will "be in the hands of the security services and considered forewarned," the statement ends. In the Hamas-controlled Strip, an arrest for purported collaboration with Israel means an almost-certain death sentence. Human Rights Watch and other watchdogs have condemned the summary execution of collaborators in Gazoo. In November 2012, Hamas men on cycle of violences were filmed dragging bodies of accused collaborators through the streets of Gazoo. On Monday, the Paleostinian news agency al-Majd al-Amani, which is linked to Hamas’s military wing, said a large campaign was already underway to capture "collaborators," and that a group had already been nabbed Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! Since Hamas took power in the Gazoo Strip in 2007, 96 death penalties have been handed down, mostly by military courts and often for spying on behalf of Israel, said Hamdi Shaqura of the Paleostinian Center for Human Rights. Many, but not all, of the death sentences have been carried out. At least 21 death sentences were handed down in Gazoo in 2016 alone. |
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