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Hamas Terror Modus Operandi

"In the chaos of the conflict, the de facto Hamas administration granted its security forces free rein to carry out horrific abuses, including against people in its custody. These spine-chilling actions, some of which amount to war crimes, were designed to exact revenge and spread fear across the Gaza Strip."
"In one of the most shocking incidents, six men were publicly executed by Hamas forces outside al-Omari mosque ... in front of hundreds of spectators, including children."
"The hooded men were dragged along the floor to kneel by a wall facing the crowd, then each man was shot in the head individually before being sprayed with bullets fired from an AK-47."
Amnesty International report, "Strangling Necks: Abduction, torture and summary killings of Palestinians by Hamas forces during the 2014 Gaza/Israel conflict
 
"These spine-chilling actions, some of which amount to war crimes, were designed to exact revenge and spread fear across the Gaza Strip."
"[Hamas used the background of the war to] ruthlessly settle scores, carrying out a series of unlawful killings and other grave abuses."
Philip Luther, Amnesty International

"[The Amnesty report is] unjust and unfair. Its release in this way reveals the truth about the work of this organisation, which includes in its administration Israeli employees."
Salah Al-Bardaweel, Hamas’ official spokesman

"There were marks of torture and bullet shots on his body. His arms and legs were broken … his body was as if you’d put it in a bag and smashed it ... His body was riddled with about 30 bullets."
Brother of Atta Najjar, former Palestinian policeman, Hamas victim

During the spate of executions, according to Amnesty, one of the victims was identified as Atta Najjar – described as a former police officer under the Palestinian Authority who had already been tried and sentenced on accusations of collaboration in 2009. Despite his conviction, and the fact he was already serving a 15-year jail sentence, Najjar was among those executed on 22 August.

The Amnesty report goes on to describe the situation of eight other detainees who were placed on trial charged with "collaboration" with Israel at the time they were executed. Of the total of 23 who were executed, six were awaiting the outcome of appeals against death sentences imposed upon them by a Gaza military court in Gaza on similar charges, while two others had been convicted, serving prison terms when they were put to death.

Ibrahim Dabour, an insurance salesman, was yet another Palestinian slated for Hamas-style justice. As a collaborator with Israel, needless to say. The boiler-plate reason expiating Hamas from all accusations of terrorism targeting Palestinians whose only crime appears to have been that they were not members of Hamas, but for the most part members of Fatah, with which, though they are both haters of Israel, Hamas seems unable to regard a partnership.

"We were told about the execution by people around us at 1pm. There was no official notification. He was executed at 9.30am on Friday. My brother received a text message at 10.31pm that night saying: 'The judgment against Ibrahim Dabour has been carried out according to [sharia law] as per the ruling of the Revolutionary Court'", Ibrahim Dabour's brother informed Amnesty.

"Even if he had been sentenced to death, there would have been an appeals process and other alternatives. What they have done is nothing to do with justice, it’s just criminal. These are the actions of militias."

How soon do we forget. After a previous conflict between Hamas and the IDF in 2012, the world was horrified by the mercilessly gruesome atrocity committed by Hamas 'militants' when they dragged the body of a Palestinian through Gaza streets, claiming him to have been a detestable collaborator with Israel. He was charged by Hamas for helping Israel, in identifying targets for them in Gaza. In fact he was nothing of the kind.

Ribhi Badawi, 37, had been in a Hamas prison under armed guard for four years. He confessed that he had worked for Israel after having been tortured for seven months. "They burned (him) and broke his jaw and teeth", his widow, Kholoud Badawi said. "He was hanged for 45 days by his arms and legs to make him confess. He confessed because of the torture. He told me every detail of what had happened to him and he gave me a diary he was writing."

Palestinian gunmen ride a motorcycle as they drag the body of a man, who was suspected of working for Israel, in Gaza City, November 2012. Reuters

The Amnesty report goes on to describe other Palestinians having been abducted by Hamas and who were then subjected to torture, including severe beatings with truncheons, gun butts, hoses and wire, or having been held in tortuous stress positions. Some of the abductees were interrogated and tortured or beaten mercilessly in a disused outpatients’ clinic within the grounds of Gaza City’s main al-Shifa hospital.

At least three people arrested during the conflict and accused of collaboration died in custody. This is the government of Gaza at work. Which administers its bleak territory by sheer, unadulterated terror, awaiting the time when they feel confident their stockpile of weapons gives them the impetus they need to mount another provocation upon Israel which it once again will be unable to ignore, resulting in yet another conflict.

Perhaps next time around coordinated with Hezbollah to mount a two-pronged attack, with Iran's al-Quds Revolutionary Guards contingents moving in pincer-like to accomplish what earlier combined Arab militaries were unable to achieve.

Labels: Atrocities, Conflict, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Palestinians

posted by Pieface @ Saturday, May 30, 2015