Gaza: Palestinians executed for 'collaborating' with Israel Witnesses report that a mini-van driven by masked gun men pulled over to the side of the road, forced the men to lie face down on the ground and shot them one by one in the back of the head. Five of the bodies were left in a pile by the side of the road, by a sign branding them collaborators with Israel responsible for the death of multiple Palestinian civilians and Hamas leaders. Their names were listed. The sixth man was tied with a rope around his next to the back of a motorcycle and paraded through the city. In the first days of the war, as rumours circulated that Israeli had used a local spy to follow the movements of Ahmad al Jabari on the night he was assassinated, local police chiefs took to the radio to warn those cooperating with Israel that they would be punished within the full extent of the law. Issam Yousef, director of the Al Mexan Centre for Human Rights, said his organisation is investigating the case but Hamas routinely metes out death sentences to people accused of collaboration with Israel. Some of the names that have been mentioned to me tonight [as collaborators who were killed] had already been charged and sentenced to death. They were not just taken from the street today and shot," he said. Collaborators are a very serious issue in Palestinian society. According to many hundreds of cases there have been extremely serious crimes committed by collaborators, in situations like this. It is the state of Israel targeting civilians and leaders of the resistance - they are doing it with drones but they are also using collaborators.