Mob justice for collaborator who confessed

August 13, 2006

Jenin-Ma'an-Armed members of the Al Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, have executed a youth who admitted that he collaborated with the Israeli security forces. The youth, from the Jenin refugee camp, said that he gave the Israeli forces information that led to the Israeli assassination of two leaders of the brigades.

A group of gunmen belonging to the so-called " fact finding unit" dragged Basim Mallah, 26 from the town of Faqqu'ah in eastern Jenin, with his hands tied behind his back and blindfolded to the grounds of a mosque in Jenin. They shot him dead in the grounds.

After that, the group of bystanders shouted " Allahu Akbar" and the mother of one of the assassinated leaders spat on the collaborator's body.

Dozens of Palestinians tried to hang the body after that but a group of armed men stopped them.

Al Quds Brigades sources told Ma'an that the dead collaborator had admitted in a filmed interrogation that he had given information to Israeli security forces. The Israelis used that information to set up the assassination of Muhammad 'Atiq and Amjad Al 'Ajami a few days ago.