2009: Haidar Ghanem, human rights activist
Add comment January 7th, 2010 Headsman
On this date last year, in the midst of Israel’s bloody incursion, Gaza’s Hamas government executed Palestinian journalist and human rights activist Haidar Ghanem as an Israeli spy.
Ghanem was the best-publicized of a number of Israeli collaborators to suffer that fate during the one-sided, three-week war.
“He was taken to an abandoned building in southern Gaza and shot to death,” a Palestinian source said. “Others were executed the same way.”
The Rafah resident had actually been a minor cause celebre back in 2002, when the Palestinian Authority condemned him to death for pinpointing Fatah activists for assassination by Israeli security, for which assignment he was supposedly recruited in the 1990’s while working as a field researcher for the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem. International pressure got him released.
The Jerusalem Post reported that Ghanem confessed (as he had in the 2002 case) to the charges.
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- 1818: Alexander Arbuthnot and Richard Ambrister
- 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, “the first victims of American fascism”
- 1817: Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian independence heroine
Entry Filed under: 21st Century, Activists, Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Espionage, Execution, Israel, Occupation and Colonialism, Palestine, Ripped from the Headlines, Shot, Spies, Wartime Executions
Tags: 2000s, 2009, b'tselem, fatah, gaza war, haidar ghanem, hamas, january 7, operation cast lead, rafah
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