(Ma'an News-PA) The Palestinian Authority on Saturday blasted Hamas officials for executing more than 20 alleged collaborators with Israel on Thursday and Friday. Secretary-General of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' office al-Tayyib Abd al-Rahim said that the executions had been conducted illegally outside of the Palestinian court system. He called the killings "random executions of those who Hamas called collaborators," adding that they were reminiscent of the summary executions carried out by Wahhabi militant groups in other parts of the Middle East. Under Palestinian law, collaboration with Israel is punishable by death. All death sentences, however, require President Abbas' approval, and Abbas issued a moratorium on death sentences in 2005.
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