Thaindian News

GAZA STRIP (BNO NEWS) – Hamas on Thursday announced that they have uncovered a Palestinian spy network in Gaza that collaborated with Israel, the Haaretz newspaper reported.

Hamas arrested many Palestinians on suspicion of working with Israelis to kill senior members of the enclave’s Islamist rulers and bomb training sites and government offices.

The announcement came after a Hamas military court sentenced a Palestinian man to death by firing squad. The man was accused of assisting Israel’s secret service.

“The collaboration is small but we have arrested many. The suspects posed a real danger to the unity of the people and their resistance against Israel, which has sealed off the narrow coastal enclave by land, sea and air,” Ehab Al-Ghsain, spokesman for Gaza’s interior ministry, said.

Some of the arrested were accused of helping Israel in the late 2008 war in which 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed.

“Hamas security organs had obtained serious confessions and uncovered many collaborators who stood behind assassinations of some leaders of resistance and implemented policies of the enemy’s intelligence service against our people,” Ghsain added.

Other suspects are charged of allegedly planting bombs at training camps and government offices that caused Palestinian fatalities, while others helped to facilitate Israeli raids into Gaza and assassinations of militants.

Finally, Ghsain said some suspects who surrendered to the authorities would be rehabilitated instead of convicted, and their identities would not be published.