Hamas boasts of ‘persuading Israeli spies to repent’

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Gazan group claims more collaborators confessed than in 2010 campaign; Arab media say Israel is trying to recruit new agents

By Elhanan Miller March 28, 2013, 6:22 am 4

Hamas on Wednesday boasted of its success in persuading purported collaborators with Israel to admit their crime and repent, part of a Gaza-wide campaign to counter Israeli espionage.

Ibrahim Salah, a spokesman for Hamas’s Interior Ministry, announced that the number of Gaza residents who “repented and returned to the embrace of their people” was higher over the past 15 days, since the start of the campaign, than the number of repenting spies in the entire three-month period of a previous campaign in 2010.

“We assert that all those who repented and returned to the embrace of their people were not and will not be arrested. All their statements were collected far from the security headquarters, remaining secret. Now, they live a normal life after ridding themselves from the filth of treachery and collaboration,” wrote Salah on his Facebook page.

Since its bloody takeover of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, Hamas has been engaged in cracking down on Israeli agents. A special section of the Interior Ministry’s website has been dedicated to the anti-collaboration campaign, including video testimonials by ostensibly reformed spies describing the methods of their recruitment by Israel.

Last November, in the wake of operation Pillar of Defense, Hamas operatives summarily executed six suspected Israeli collaborators on a Gaza street, claiming the six had filmed Hamas positions on behalf of Israel. One man’s body was dragged behind a motorcycle as crowds cheered.


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