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TweetJihadist group Hamas, is going on a torturing and killing spree, killing those it accuses of collaborating with Israel, during the Israeli beatdown of Gaza. As usual, when it’s muslims killing muslims, the libtard media is silent. But let a muslim jihadi group provoke a deadly response, and all of a sudden the bleeding heart liberals are crying “disproportionate response” and “human rights”.
Mideast: Hamas critics targeted in ‘deadly campaign’
London, 10 Feb. (AKI) – Human rights group Amnesty International has accused the Gaza Strip’s ruling Hamas movement of conducting a “deadly campaign” of abductions, killings, and torture against those accused of “collaborating” with Israel. In a report released on Tuesday, Amnesty said at least two dozen men had been shot dead by Hamas gunmen and scores of others had been shot in the legs, kneecapped or inflicted with other injuries since the end of December 2008.
Others had been subjected to severe beatings which have caused multiple fractures and other injuries, or otherwise tortured or ill-treated, Amnesty said.
The report summarises the research of an Amnesty International fact-finding team which visited Gaza during and after the recent Israeli offensive which killed more than 1,330 Palestinians, most of them civilians. Thirteen Israelis died during the three-week offensive that began on 27 December.
Amnesty said most of the victims attacked by Hamas were abducted from their homes and later dumped – dead or injured – in isolated areas, or found in the morgue of one of Gaza’s hospitals. Some were shot dead inside hospitals where they were receiving treatment for injuries.
The fact-finding team which visited Gaza during and after the Israeli offensive recorded testimonies from a number of victims, as well as medical sources and eyewitnesses who corroborated their stories.
“Scores of others are too afraid to speak publicly for fear of retribution by Hamas forces and militias,” Amnesty said in a statement.
Amnesty is calling on the Hamas de-facto administration to immediately end the campaign of abuse and to agree to the establishment of an independent, non-partisan national commission of experts to investigate the claims.
The targets of Hamas’ deadly campaign include former detainees accused of “collaborating” with the Israeli army who escaped from Gaza’s central prison when it was bombed by Israeli forces on 28 December 2008, as well as former members of the Palestinian Authority security forces and other activists aligned with the Fatah Party of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.
The campaign began shortly after the beginning of the three-week Israeli military offensive against the Gaza Strip on 27 December 2008 and continued after a ceasefire took effect on 18 January 2009, Amnesty said.
Among the cases investigated by Amnesty were what it called the deliberate killings of three brothers from the Abu Ashbiyeh family, Atef, Mohammed and Mahmoud, from Jabalia in northern Gaza, who were all killed within 24 hours of escaping from Gaza’s central prison.
One of the brothers, Mahmoud, 24, reportedly reached the family home in the afternoon of 28 December but an hour later a group of gunmen came to the house and took him away. His body was found hours later in the morgue of Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya (north Gaza) with abdomen and head wounds.
The following day the bodies of his two brothers, 26-year-old Mohammed and 39-year-old Atef, were found in the morgue of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, both with gunshot wounds in the head, chest and abdomen.
The three had been in detention since March 2008 and were accused of “collaborating” with the Israeli army.
In one case, Hamas apologised for one deliberate killing in a public statement obtained by Amnesty International.
Hassan al-Hijazi, 37 years old, was abducted on 7 January 2009 by three masked gunmen from his family home north of Gaza City.
The gunmen immediately shot him in the legs and chest and dumped his body near the house. A Hamas communiqué, dated 12 January 2009, refers to the killing of Hassan al-Hijazi, a commander of the Abu ‘Ali Mustapha Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and stated: “Hamas assumes the entire responsibility for this mistake… [and] will hold accountable those responsible for this act… [It] offers condolences to the family of the martyr al-Hijazi.”
In another case, members of the Hamas political leadership reportedly apologized to the family of 51-year-old Jameel Shafiq Shaqqura, who died on 6 February 2009, seemingly as a result of the torture he was subjected to during his detention by the Hamas Internal Security forces in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza on 30 January 2009.
This is why there will never be a Palestinian state. The Palestinians kill each other when they are not busy stirring up the hornets nest in Israel. There will be no peace, as long as muslims love death more than we (Jew, Christian, Buddhist, Atheist) love life.
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