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Related: About this forumIn Gaza, Hamas Targets Palestinian Informants In Crackdown
Life was already grim in the Gaza Strip when fighting raged between Israel and Hamas last November. Then Khulud Badawi got unexpected bad news about her husband.
"I was at home when my son came in and said, 'Mom, they killed Dad.' I said, 'Who?' He said, 'Hamas.' I asked him, 'Where?' He said, 'Next to the gas station,'" she recalls.
Badawi's husband, Ribhi Badawi, was in prison in Gaza City. He was supposed to go to court that day for a final appeal of charges that he had collaborated with Israel against Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip.
But Ribhi Badawi was taken from prison and executed in public, along with five other inmates. They were all accused of being collaborators, or informants, working for Israel.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/06/04/186975387/in-gaza-hamas-targets-palestinian-informants-in-crackdown
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jessie04
(1,528 posts)They walk into a prison and walk out with 6 "prisoners" and then extrajudicially execute 6 people in public ??
What kind of crap is that ??
I believe that's against the Geneva convention.
And the people who did this ?? Are they arrested ??
oberliner
(58,724 posts)People sometimes forget that.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/14/world/la-fg-wn-israel-gaza-family-bombing-20130414
although according to the OP Hamas did investigate and punished the guards at the prison where they were being held, however they have not found those guilty of the actual killings
shira
(30,109 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)are you claiming that I support Hamas yes or no?
or does the truth somehow embarrass you?
shira
(30,109 posts)....other than to deflect and derail the thread?
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)and both incidents happened during Pillar of Cloud
but your protests are noted 
shira
(30,109 posts)...about the IDF perceived to be doing something wrong in Gaza, okay? Even if the article doesn't mention Hamas, we'll mention Hamas.
Okay?
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)and if not Hamas then the PA/PLO or sometimes it's the lions and tigers and bears thing with HAMAS, PA, PLO can't quite remember who though 
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Your response is pathetically predictable.
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)or about six a year.
PCHR said in a statement that the military court sentenced a Palestinian civilian identified as M.A.N from Al Sha’af neighbourhood, east of Gaza, to death under the Revolutionary Penalty Law, 1979.
The centre said this was the second verdict of its kind since the beginning of the year and that a total of 134 death verdicts had been passed in the Palestinian territories since the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) was set up in 1994.
Of these, 107 death verdicts had been issued in the Gaza Strip and 27 other death verdicts passed in the West Bank.
http://m.gulfnews.com/news/region/palestinian-territories/palestinian-collaborators-sentenced-to-death-1.1182607
By comparison, five unarmed Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the first month of 2013 alone:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/28/palestinian-deaths-israel-army-live-fire
oberliner
(58,724 posts)By comparison, only five Palestinians were killed by Israelis during that same time.
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)I have invested a significant amount personally in the downfall of that particular government, and I doubt that there would be many on this board that would be sad to see it go.
But the point remains that more Palestinians died at the hands of Israel during a single day of Operation Cast Lead than were killed as suspected collaborators during the past twenty years.
And all militias, even your cherished Jewish Underground militias without whom the state of Israel would not exist today, execute collaborators.
shira
(30,109 posts)shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)This is the part you are not understanding.
shaayecanaan
(6,068 posts)His wife claims that he was killed not because he was a collaborator, but because he was a member of a rival militia group (Islamic Jihad perhaps?).
I suppose that it would make sense for Hamas to be taking on Islamic Jihad, particularly given IJ's pro-Iranian orientation and the fracas between Hamas and Hezbollah that is going on at the moment.
It would also make sense in the context of Hamas working to stop these various militias from firing rockets into Israel:-
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/IDF-source-Hamas-working-to-stop-rockets-from-Gaza-311977
But ultimately we don't know.
Of course, what we do know is that if this person was a member of Islamic Jihad, Israel would not have hesitated to have killed him in an instant.
But by all means, please feel free to keep crying crocodile tears for this poor, beleaguered member of a rival militia group. But just remember that, if Israel rather than Hamas had killed him, I don't think you would have cared a tinker's damn in hell for Mr Badawi, or his wife and kid.
