Hamas Executes One of Its Leaders - Then Blames Israel
by Khaled Abu Toameh
• August 8, 2014 at 5:00 am
Sources in the Gaza Strip said on
Thursday that Taha was executed because Hamas feared he might implicate some
of its leaders in many corruption scandals. "The man knew too much abut
the senior leaders of Hamas."
The international media, for its
part, will simply endorse the Hamas story because it is more convenient to
blame Israel than to get into trouble with a radical Islamist movement that
carries out extra-judicial executions.
Prominent
Hamas leader Ayman Taha during a November 2012 television interview. (Image
source: photo credit: YouTube video screenshot)
Militiamen on Thursday dumped the bullet-riddled body of Ayman Taha, a
former prominent Hamas figure, outside Gaza City's Shifa Hospital.
The body remained on the ground for nearly an hour before other
militiamen came back and took it to an unknown destination.
Palestinians who were at the hospital were too afraid to remove the
body.
A few hours later, Taha's body was handed over to Shifa Hospital by a
number of Hamas militiamen.
Palestinian journalists said that Taha had been executed for spying on
behalf of an Arab intelligence service and involvement in financial
corruption.
According to the journalists, Taha was executed by a firing squad three
days ago. They said that he died instantly of gunshots to the head and chest.
Hamas's armed wing, Izaddin al-Qassam, arrested Taha in 2013 on
suspicion that he had served as an informant for the Egyptian General
Intelligence Service.
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