Money woes drive Gazans to collaborate with Israel
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GAZA CITY — Mahmud regrets the day he took cash from an Israeli soldier for his wedding. It cost him a life sentence in a Gaza jail for collaboration with Israel.
This 24-year-old is among dozens of Palestinians who have been jailed by Gaza’s Hamas-run security forces for passing on information to Israel about armed groups operating in the enclave.
Some of them let themselves be bought for a pittance — receiving only a few hundred shekels (about $80, 60 euros) — in exchange for betraying their countrymen, Hamas says.
For Mahmud, financial problems paved the slippery slope to jail.
“I was walking near my home in northern Gaza, near the border with Israel, when I was stopped by the special forces and questioned,” he says, crouching in the corner of his cell..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110213com6.html
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