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_Rights Groups and EU Condemn Hamas over _Collaboration_ Executions


(Middle East Eye) Human rights groups and the EU have condemned the execution by Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, of five Palestinians, including two, for "collaboration" with Israel. The dawn executions, by hanging or firing squad, were the first carried out in the besieged coastal enclave for more than five years. Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch, described the executions as "abhorrent... Death as government-sanctioned punishment is a barbaric practice that has no place in the modern world," he wrote on Twitter.
2022-09-08 00:00:00
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