Rights group condemns Hamas over collaborator deaths
The victims had been imprisoned in Gaza but were apparently handed over to the Hamas gunmen.
JERUSALEM (AP) - An international rights group has condemned Gaza s Hamas rulers for failing to investigate the public slayings of seven Palestinian men accused of collaborating with Israel.
Human Rights Watch says Gaza s Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh had promised an investigation into the deaths.
The New York-based group says that four months after masked Hamas gunmen killed the suspects and dragged their bodies through the streets, Gaza s authorities have done nothing to address the murders.
The men had been imprisoned in Gaza but were apparently handed over to the Hamas gunmen during a November bout of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants. The men were paraded into a public square, accused of aiding Israel and shot.
Islam Shahwan, spokesman for Hamas Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip, had no comment on HRW s charges.
