Hamas kills suspected collaborators with Israel, witnesses say

Palestinian gunmen ride motorcycles as they drag the body of a man who was killed earlier Tuesday as a suspected collaborator with Israel, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012. / AP Photo/Hatem Moussa

GAZA CITY, Gaza Stri Witnesses say masked gunmen have publicly killed six suspected collaborators with Israel at a busy Gaza City intersection.

The Hamas military wing claimed responsibility.

Witnesses said the six men were pulled out of a van Tuesday, forced to lie face down on the street and then shot dead.

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Five bodies lay in a pile as a mob stomped and spit on them. A sixth body was tied to a motorcycle and dragged through the streets as people screamed, "Spy! Spy!"

Hamas posted a sign on an electricity pole, naming the six alleged informers.

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The public killings came during an Israeli military offensive that has killed more than 120 people, both militants and civilians.

Israel relies on a network of local informants to identify its targets.

[MacPClinuxMIniMain]

Those who voted in a known jew hating terrorist organization to lead them should not be amazed that their own people would start dieing in such horrible ways. Sow to the wind and reap the whirl wind from the people who worship their moongod and god of war who's idol is in mecca at the Hajj.

[jrjjack]

And these are compassionate people who want peace? No arrest, no trial, no anything, they just shoot them, period. They use their own women and children as shields. They are cowards, wimps who fire rockets into Israel for weeks, constantly, then expect them to sit and do nothing. I hope Israel goes in and wipes out the terrorists there and anywhere Radical Islam exists!! Go Israel and Shalom!

[marlin3000]

Exactly right. Radical Islam is totally responsible for what is happening, period.

[MacPClinuxMIniMain]

They also use media/journalist as human shields too. What BULLY cowards!

[mjlewis6]

Israel sent agents into an arab country on the Arabian Penninsula under British and Canadian passports to assassinate a terrorist leader. Do not believe Israel is above covert action which is either terrorist or patriotic in its interpretation.

But whether it is a patriotic act or act of war, public executions have a different impact on the population in which it occurs. Clearly, the executions show there is NO DESIRE on the part of a good segment of the population to be in a battle zone created by HAMAS. This intimidation tactic shows there is not only a problem with Hamas, but one from which a State of Palestine must divorce itself to attain a free Palestinian State next to Israel, and not a new State from which Hezbollah or another proxy militant group may strike Israel.

[KevinLANM]

Hamas is standing up for the Palastinians, who have been under such horrid living conditions for the last 60 years due to the insidious land grabbing by Israel. How the U.S. can support Israel, who killed American Navy personnel on the navel ship, Liberty, is dumb founding.

[Alkausar5]

In my opinion, Hamas has been corrected to accuse the 6 Israeli's collaborators.It is the law of war.

[MacPClinuxMIniMain]

It's the law of those who worship the moongod and god of war who's idol is in mecca at the Hajj. " Shooting men in front of a 13-year old boy....classy. Killing people, without providing evidence....clearly peace loving people.....rest of the people spitting and kicking a corpse.....yes, they want war to end. Dragging a corpse through the streets......yes, they want this war to end....and is nothing like animals." NOT

[ahrats]

See this is what terriorist do, kill suspected people with any evidence, trial, just here say and you want to negoaiate with them? HAMAS IS A TERRIOIST ORGINAIZATION, Egypt you can have them, but think of the conciquences. I'll bet you ask a palestinan do they want HAMAS, NO, but they can not say that otherwise they end up like these people.

[MacPClinuxMIniMain]

Yes, they probably wanted "the collaberators" land or little 9-year old daughters to marry. So good excuse to cap em and take the booty from their brothers. Hamas is pure evil, period.

[GeorgeHolmes]

These actions are stazi ss style terrorism against the Palastinian population. The FEAR purpose is local, and the perps don't care about world opinion. This is a sign to me of Hamas impotence. They are nearly out and they mean to use rockets to re-affirm their mission and murder to re-affirm their power. Probably could not win another election.

Israel knows this and has withheld retaliation for weeks waiting for information. These six were not Mossad.

[sandline-limit]

Ahmed al-Jabari's not been dead a week - DOD 14Nov.

Ahmed al-Jabari organized cross-border attack killing Israeli soldiers 25 June 2006 and capture of Gilad Shalit who was held until 18 October 2011. Also engineered smuggling through tunnels (reported by Egyptian sources)
Iranian long-range Fajr-5 missiles (range: 190 km)
Iranian Fajr-3 missiles (range: 65 km)
Iranian Grad missiles (range: 20-30 km)
Shoulder held anti-tank weapons

[ronjula-2012]

America calling israel an allie is a joke, giving them weapons and money is far from being a civilized, for murderers to run free of any justice for what they have done to the Palestinian people. and as we know the serious escalation in violence began after Israel decisively broke a tacit truce it had reached with Hamas. Israel assassinated a Hamas leader, Ahmed al-Jabari, and proceeded to pound the Gaza Strip for the next week

[kbbpll]

Being an informant for Israel is frowned upon in Gaza? Who knew.