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Hamas court sentences policeman to death for family feud killing

By The Associated Press

Tags: Hamas, capital punishment

A court in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip sentenced a member of the radical Islamic group's security force to death Thursday for the killing of a colleague in a family feud, Hamas officials said.

It was the first capital sentence handed down in Gaza since Hamas seized control of the territory last June.

A tribunal, described by Hamas as a military court sentenced Yasser Zanoun to be executed by a firing squad, following his conviction for murdering fellow-policeman Ismail Mashwahi shortly after Hamas violently took power in the strip from the rival Fatah movement.

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The killing did not appear to be linked to the fighting between the two sides, as Hamas officials said Mashawi was a Fatah loyalist, while Zanoun drifted in and out of the movement.

The sentence has still to be approved by Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.

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