Three Palestinians accused of \u201ccollaborating\u201d with Israel were executed\u00a0 by\u00a0masked Hamas terrorists\u00a0in front of a cheering crowd in\u00a0Gaza\u00a0on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Ghastly footage of the killings, originally posted on a Hamas-affiliated Telegram group, shows\u00a0the three doomed\u00a0blindfolded men kneeling on the ground in front of a trio of\u00a0Hamas gunmen holding automatic weapons as a fourth loudly reads in Arabic from a piece of paper.<\/p>\n
Hamas-led authorities in Gaza have executed three men accused of collaborating with Israel. QudsN \/ Telegram<\/p>\n
Smoke billowing during Israeli bombardment on the besieged Palestinian territory. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cPursuant to the content of Palestinian revolutionary law and based on the Palestinian revolutionary court, a death sentence was decided against those who betrayed the homeland, betrayed their people and betrayed their cause, and put [themselves] hand-in-hand with the occupation in order to kill their own people,\u201d\u00a0the terroristsaid, according to an English-language translation provided to\u00a0the Telegraph<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis.<\/p>\n The crowd can be heard chanting \u201cAllahu Akbar!\u201d \u2014 a Muslim prayer meaning \u201cGod is most great\u201d \u2014 seemingly cheering on the brutal executions.<\/p>\n All three men were then shot in their heads and upper bodies,\u00a0with the\u00a0terrorists placing notes on their corpses reading,\u00a0\u201cYour betrayal will not pass without punishment. A harsh punishment awaits\u201d in handwritten Arabic, the outlet\u00a0said.<\/p>\n Hamas\u2019 ministry of the interior called the men a \u201cgroup of outlaws\u201d who had collaborated with the Jewish state.<\/p>\n Israel Defense Forces advancing into Gaza City. X \/ @idfonline<\/p>\n During the war, Hamas said it has publicly punished people for crimes including looting and collaboration with Israel. QudsN \/ Telegram<\/p>\n IDF tank in Gaza with destroyed buildings in the background, viewed through a wire fence. X \/ @idfonline<\/p>\n Israeli\u00a0newspaper Israel Hayom said Islamic Jihad and the Mujahideen Brigades \u2014 both formally designated as terror groups by the US \u2014 also took part in the savagery.<\/p>\n