A military court in the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip has handed death sentences to six people convicted of spying for the Tel Aviv regime.
According to Gaza’s interior ministry, a total of 14 people were sentenced for “collaborating with the occupation,” with six sentenced to be hanged and the rest sentenced to hard labor.
One of the sentenced is a woman living inside the Israeli occupied territories. She was sentenced in absentia and is alleged to have encouraged her nephew in Gaza to collaborate with Israeli intelligence.
During a press briefing, Iyad al-Bozum, the spokesman of the interior ministry in Gaza, said that the convicts were linked “to a communications and eavesdropping device planted by the (Israeli) occupation.”
In May, at least six members of the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, were killed when the device apparently exploded after detection near Dayr al-Balah in central Gaza.
Bozum during a press briefing also hailed the rulings as a “clear message” to those who would cooperate with Israel. “Collaborators must realize the (Israeli) occupation will not be able to protect them.”
It was not clear when the executions of those in custody would take place.
The deadly clashes in Gaza started on March 30 with a series of protests called “The Great March of Return.” The protests reached their peak on May 14, the eve of the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day, which coincided this year with Washington’s relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.
According to the latest figures released by the Gaza Health Ministry, about 240 Palestinians have so far been killed and over 20,000 others wounded in the renewed Gaza clashes.
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