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Hamas urges collaborators to hand themselves in
Published Tuesday 12/03/2013 (updated) 14/03/2013 14:58
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza has a list of collaborators who will be detained if they do not turn themselves in, a security official said Tuesday.

"Collaborators must contact dignitaries to help them turn themselves over to security services," said Muhammad Lafi, of the Internal Security Service.

Informers who give themselves up by April 11 will not be detained or sent to interrogation centers, Lafi told reporters in Gaza City.

The Ministry of Interior and the Social Affairs Ministry will allocate a monthly salary to the families of collaborators who surrender, he added.

"This campaign against collaborators isn't purely a security campaign, as it also has a social element. We do not discriminate between them according to their political affiliation, and we will provide them with information to make sure they can make right their mistakes and thus protect resistance fighters," Lafi said.

Interior Ministry spokesman Islam Shahwan said the campaign aimed to "reinforce society" against Israeli enlistment efforts.

The ministry released the details of two Palestinians who were recruited by Israeli intelligence.

A man in his 20s posted his mobile number on an online singing website and was contacted the next day by a woman identifying herself as Haifa who claimed to be from northern Israel.

She told the man she was in love with him, sent him money and prepaid phone credit, and said she would connect him with a businessman who could improve his financial situation, according to the ministry.

The businessman turned out to be an Israeli intelligence officer who recruited the man as a collaborator.

The ministry said Gaza's Internal Security Service discovered the man was a collaborator and he later turned himself in.

"(The ISS in Gaza) treated me well and kept my story secret. I am free of worry now as the crime I committed against my people is now history," he said, according to the ministry.

Meanwhile, 43-year-old Yousef was recruited by Israel as a collaborator in 1986 after Israeli intelligence officers bribed him using a photo of him having sex, the ministry said.

The Hamas government in Gaza announced its latest campaign to crack down on collaboration with Israel earlier in March.

Palestinian collaboration with Israel is an extremely sensitive issue in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with information passed to Israel's security services often being used to make arrests and assassinate political and militant figures.

Gaza courts have handed out 30 death sentences since 2007, many of them to people convicted of helping Israeli security forces.

The last high-profile execution of collaborators took place in Gaza during Israel's assault on the coastal territory last November.

Gunmen shot dead six alleged collaborators and chained the body of one of them to a motorcycle before dragging it throughout the main streets of Gaza City.

A Ma'an review of publicly available records as well as interviews with experts in Gaza showed that all of the men had been in the custody of the Hamas government for months and in one case years before Israel launched its "Pillar of Cloud" operation, and were not caught "red-handed" as security officials had said at the time.
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1 ) Yehuda Solomon / Israel
12/03/2013 19:58
It is high time this sickening game of spy recruitment come to a damn end despite whatever the hell benefit it has done or may do for us. This is just another damn reason why all Palestinians west of the Jordan River must eventually leave and go to Jordan/Palestine and make their lives prosperous there or this spy/counterspy/exposure/capture/killing is just another never-ending facet of life between us and the Palestinians. We both know there will never be a true peace between our (cont.)

2 ) Colin Wright / USA
12/03/2013 20:13
Good, if true. Breaking Israel's networks of informers will break another of the pillars of her power.

3 ) jim / us
12/03/2013 20:16
The Mossad gave Hamas the list - sacrificed sheep - to hide the real collaborators within corrupt Hamas.

4 ) Yehuda Solomon / Israel
12/03/2013 20:17
2 Peoples, otherwise. FORGET ABOUT this Hamas voluntary, "self-arrest" offer. Whenever 1 of our recruited Palestinian spies is exposed it's now morally up to us to get him/her the hell out of trouble or he/she will be tortured and/or killed by Hamas. I HATE our Mossad doing this and I HATE it when Palestinian spies get killed for it (and, by extension, that goes for all our spying against the Palestinians wherever they may be). To hell with all this never-ending crap ... TO HELL WITH IT.

5 ) reem / lebanon
12/03/2013 23:50
shocking

6 ) Captain Crunch Cereal Boxes / USA
13/03/2013 03:57
This is such a good policy act Hamas interior has started. It gives the chance for repentance & redemption and lays to rest all the claims about abuses & undeserved death sentences & human rights abuses against collaborators. God bless Hamas & Islamic Jihad governments in Gaza. يا حماس و يا الجهاد الاسلامي في غزة و الله أكبرــــلله اكبر يا رب اللهم أمين فلسطينية

7 ) Tim Upham / United States
13/03/2013 07:18
So are the Gazans learning Hebrew in Gaza's schools collaborators? Gaza interacts with Israel, whether Hamas likes it or not. So Hamas may want to make sure what a collaborator is. Because is Ismail Haniyeh's brother-in-law treated at an Israeli hospital a collaborator?

8 ) LOLOL SHOW ME THE MONEY / MOSSAD PAYS GOOD
13/03/2013 07:26
take some oil money and pay them more--they will stop working for MOSSAD!

9 ) LOL all of a sudden these / JIHADIST ALL WEAR
13/03/2013 08:59
three piece suits????

How nice

10 ) Brian Cohen / Israel
13/03/2013 09:05
Anybody who believes that an informer who turns himself over to Hamas won't be harmed must also believe that there is a huge secret hidden Zionist goldmine under Gaza City. And oil wells too. Most likely their fate will be like those of the famous photographs from last November....bodies of alleged collaborators chained to motorcycles and dragged through the streets. There is only 1 solution: Hamas must join Fatah and sign a peace treaty with Israel. That, of course, is not likely to happen.

11 ) howard / usa
13/03/2013 16:04
Hamas is a democratic government? and as i recall the execution of a collaborater in november was later proven that the poor guy did nothing wrong.

12 ) Colin Wright / USA
14/03/2013 03:16
To Yehuda Solomon #4: '... To hell with all this never-ending crap ... TO HELL WITH IT.' So leave Israel. I realize this is a rude way to put it, but you're like the guy who married the whore -- and keeps getting upset at how she goes about picking up pocket money.

13 ) Colin Wright / USA
14/03/2013 05:15
To Tim Uphan #7: ' So Hamas may want to make sure what a collaborator is.' I think Hamas knows what a collaborator is, and I think Israel does, and I think the collaborator himself does as well. This is the Nazi regime in Poland we're talking about -- not your local county government. There's no moral ambiguity here.

14 ) Colin Wright / USA
14/03/2013 05:18
To LOLOL #8: 'LOLOL SHOW ME THE MONEY...' Considering that actually, what we're usually talking about is the human tragedy that ensues when Israel manages to get her pliers on someone's nuts, your remark is both idiotic and incredibly callous. Maybe in the next life, there'll be an Israel that will force you to collaborate. You can laugh about it then. In fact, I hope that happens. Can't wait to hear what you say when they squeeze...

15 ) Rami / Palestine
14/03/2013 08:21
It took 0.0002 seconds after reading the headline of this article for Yehuda, the Ma'an troll to call for a forced exodus of all Palestinians to Jordan. Congratulations. That's a new record.
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