Hamas Shoots Dead 18 Palestinians Accused Of Spying For Israel

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box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="float_left" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="ad_share_box padding_bottom_5 margin_right_20" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="float_right padding_left_10" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; float: right; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: auto;"> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hamas gunmen killed 18 Palestinians accused of spying for Israel, some of whom were lined up along the wall of a mosque after Friday prayers and shot in the head.</span><br /> <div class="content" id="mainentrycontent" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Hamas-linked Al Majd website said the killings, which are the largest number of suspected informers ever killed by the militant group in a single day, were "choking the necks of the collaborators." It warned that suspects would not be dealt with through the justice system but "in the field".</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights said two of those killed Friday were women and called for an immediate halt to what it said were "extra-judicial executions."</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="hamas execute palestinians" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1979897/thumbs/o-HAMAS-EXECUTE-PALESTINIANS-570.jpg?5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span></div> <center style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Crowds gather to watch the killing of seven Palestinians</strong></div> </center> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Those women were two of 11 alleged informants shot dead at the Gaza City police headquarters. Seven more, their faces covered with bags, were killed by masked gunmen after midday prayers in front of worshipers at the al-Omari mosque. Each had a piece of paper pinned to his forehead, with his initial and the crime he was accused of committing.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The condemned men "had sold their souls to the enemy for a cheap price" one of the gunmen said, <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_PALESTINIANS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-08-22-08-05-35" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">according to a source who spoke to the Associated Press.</a></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The crackdown is said to have been sparked by the killing of three senior military leaders of Hamas in Israeli airstrikes, men Israel says are responsible for building its tunnel network to smuggle weapons. Earlier in the week, another strike killed the wife and two children of Mohammed Deif, the shadowy leader of the Hamas military wing. Deif's fate remains unclear.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hamas said it would not release the names of those killed because it wanted to protect the reputation of their families.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/20/hamas-executes-informants-israel-gaza" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">In 2012, the killing of alleged "spies" by Hamas came to prominence </a>when a mob set upon the bloodied corpses of six executed Palestinians. The bodies were stamped on and spat at, with one corpse tied to a motorcycle and dragged through the streets.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="hamas palestinians" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1979903/thumbs/o-HAMAS-PALESTINIANS-570.jpg?5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span></div> <center style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Masked gunmen forced the victims against the wall of a mosque</strong></div> </center> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There is broad consensus among Palestinians that informers for Israel deserve harsh punishment, and it is rare to hear someone speak out against killings of alleged collaborators. Such public killings been carried out in the West Bank and Gaza since the first uprising against Israeli occupation in the late 1980s.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">During Operation Cast Lead in 2008-9, 17 suspected collaborators were shot dead by Hamas.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, Israel-Gaza fighting continued for a third day since the collapse of Egyptian-led cease-fire talks earlier this week. 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More than 200 bearded militants had besieged the village.<br /><br />Then their leader – a local man from Mosul rather than the foreigners who make up more than a third of the ranks of the group now known as Islamic State – offered them a chance to save their lives.<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg89mK6DLm68Ww9VboNPX0w0ojMd5ZffAKqISIn2pFCn6Mi2ZfjfX_K13OdIQ8zqeTQnDOxj0o5AyQRmjWmiQ30UUhAnyTkk_Y9NSoZR0syiZxjVRvHlYET9b1q64b4Drh_HStAVHBzFXon/s1600/1407624982032_wps_9_isis_execution_jpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg89mK6DLm68Ww9VboNPX0w0ojMd5ZffAKqISIn2pFCn6Mi2ZfjfX_K13OdIQ8zqeTQnDOxj0o5AyQRmjWmiQ30UUhAnyTkk_Y9NSoZR0syiZxjVRvHlYET9b1q64b4Drh_HStAVHBzFXon/s1600/1407624982032_wps_9_isis_execution_jpg.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">                            <i>  Horror: A black flag is held aloft as Islamic State jihadists execute a prisoner</i><br /><br />‘He told us that either we become Muslims or they would kill us all,’ said Falah, mayor of the village made up mainly of members of the ancient Yazidi sect. ‘We offered money but they would not accept it.’<br /><br />The deadline the people of Kosho have to meet is midday today. Since the residents refuse to betray their faith, it is feared an entire village of about 2,500 innocent people might be slaughtered in cold blood.<br /><br />‘If we did not have families, we would try to escape,’ the stoical Falah told me yesterday. ‘But we have lots of women here and many children, along with all the old men and women of the village. How could we leave them?’<br /><br />This is thought to be the first time these blood-drenched fanatics – who delight in boasting of their barbarism and posting sickening murder videos on social media – have threatened to wipe out an entire village.<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjgZK9duELTOckBsLHo5_hu10srAx8VdpRNxrfa5QVqwYaUbJE5LhMgmJ4plmGPwayv3C_1w6r7U5TVsI7S_3Yzg458wRgwFS4TToZT-6lURNdAMtmYT42MnF3Dh29xDB2RzBcbU-P5-4A/s1600/1407625102065_Image_galleryImage_MOSUL_IRAQ_AUGUST_9_Thous.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjgZK9duELTOckBsLHo5_hu10srAx8VdpRNxrfa5QVqwYaUbJE5LhMgmJ4plmGPwayv3C_1w6r7U5TVsI7S_3Yzg458wRgwFS4TToZT-6lURNdAMtmYT42MnF3Dh29xDB2RzBcbU-P5-4A/s1600/1407625102065_Image_galleryImage_MOSUL_IRAQ_AUGUST_9_Thous.JPG" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Seeking salvation: Thousands of people stranded for weeks on the mountain range near Sinjar flee towards Syria through a secure corridor opened by Kurdish troops</i><br /><br />Even by their own chilling standards, re-drawing the Middle East map with a rampage of rape, beheadings and revolting crucifixions, this marks a new low.<br />It comes at the end of a week during which the fanatics of Islamic State –formerly the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) – shocked the world again by advancing further into Iraq, prompting the US to renew military operations there for the first time since 2011.<br />In other developments yesterday:</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh33wI3C_zC7Yr73N2tU9RaOTZW_o0DO_rUIeHmofeep0etKsxrJEDcdHXT2-oxd0coWsIWYg3pdof4neuhDzMdTIwXjid_pNy4Go6zUgyiKDJShe420626km6LXkf8oBaeYuKew8A8vIlf/s1600/1407625987485_wps_24_Paul_Hennessy00006_jpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh33wI3C_zC7Yr73N2tU9RaOTZW_o0DO_rUIeHmofeep0etKsxrJEDcdHXT2-oxd0coWsIWYg3pdof4neuhDzMdTIwXjid_pNy4Go6zUgyiKDJShe420626km6LXkf8oBaeYuKew8A8vIlf/s1600/1407625987485_wps_24_Paul_Hennessy00006_jpg.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Desperate masses: Yazidi people stranded in the Sinjar mountains rush towards a helicopter laden with supplies</i><br /><br />As U.S. air strikes continued, President Obama warned he will not allow jihadists to carve out a ‘caliphate’ straddling Syria and Iraq;</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfqENAfF1okTZIKX86QTdiLTV_ImSvFwhI3S-Cy-oo3otXG5po4xwOL_hPszW1cRRftgy5NDC4NGM7LdllqTtwcj2WztRm1BFIAKgB_0Pf-tgxslBNyp5X8D_Dim4F14LxkOEMH6rONgYJ/s1600/1407625922717_wps_17_MOSUL_IRAQ_AUGUST_9_Thous.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfqENAfF1okTZIKX86QTdiLTV_ImSvFwhI3S-Cy-oo3otXG5po4xwOL_hPszW1cRRftgy5NDC4NGM7LdllqTtwcj2WztRm1BFIAKgB_0Pf-tgxslBNyp5X8D_Dim4F14LxkOEMH6rONgYJ/s1600/1407625922717_wps_17_MOSUL_IRAQ_AUGUST_9_Thous.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Lifted: This child, too weary to make the journey off of the barren mountainside, must be carried</i><br /><br />Islamic State fanatics kidnapped hundreds of Yazidi women below the age of 35;<br /><br />Hundreds of desperate refugees trapped on Mount Sinjar scrambled to board a single helicopter laden with food and water – while 5,000 escaped down a new ‘safe’ route;</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_XlJCqIu1ahHj57O3vsQUqD-kavlrlZ-M7NP9I0NFY1ly2cUiGttUakjN6eKmw6D1okFJpCCD7Y-_CWCn0PBUXRZ4_FP2280-HhUzcs1uTPFoaKKq3Oh8sMIAn-nyuMB0QfWRGW-OdV2c/s1600/1407625875532_wps_16_MOSUL_IRAQ_AUGUST_9_Thous.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_XlJCqIu1ahHj57O3vsQUqD-kavlrlZ-M7NP9I0NFY1ly2cUiGttUakjN6eKmw6D1okFJpCCD7Y-_CWCn0PBUXRZ4_FP2280-HhUzcs1uTPFoaKKq3Oh8sMIAn-nyuMB0QfWRGW-OdV2c/s1600/1407625875532_wps_16_MOSUL_IRAQ_AUGUST_9_Thous.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Wide-eyed: A Yazidi child, who has just been fed by a Peshmerga rescuer, stares into a camera lens</i><br /><br />The UK sent two aircraft to help with the relief operation and promised further air-drops;<br /><br />IS seized control of the vital Mosul Dam which supplies water and power to millions of Iraqis. There were fears its destruction would unleash a 65ft wave that would overwhelm Mosul and even cause flooding in Baghdad.<br /><br />The Islamic State militants have already imposed a medieval-style Islamic caliphate on a slice of Iraq and Syria the size of Britain after seizing Mosul, Iraq’s second biggest city, in June.<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdWkcyW7zz0c7zkAvGkxRruuYNPImrq4M9-rGAl8UK6T7vPHPFt18uwJDoEqUwFyYrnzV82jtAo-JYzOEUlbOj7UUbljrQAYZAurm6MuVryCUsL_evwbChyphenhyphenSGhOkJL8jXNRoJR7cR7SsL0/s1600/1407625930185_wps_18_MOSUL_IRAQ_AUGUST_9_Thous.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdWkcyW7zz0c7zkAvGkxRruuYNPImrq4M9-rGAl8UK6T7vPHPFt18uwJDoEqUwFyYrnzV82jtAo-JYzOEUlbOj7UUbljrQAYZAurm6MuVryCUsL_evwbChyphenhyphenSGhOkJL8jXNRoJR7cR7SsL0/s1600/1407625930185_wps_18_MOSUL_IRAQ_AUGUST_9_Thous.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div> </div> </div>

Crucified by the Caliphate monsters: Iraq descends into apocalypse

Crucified by the Caliphate monsters: Iraq descends into apocalypse as Islamic State fanatics seize towns and tell terrified Yazidi 'Be...

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